Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Lawlessness doesn’t mean there’s no law, you know, it just means that there are a lot of different laws slugging it out in the streets, and none of them have come out on top yet.

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• I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

  

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• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

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• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  

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• If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

  

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• My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.

  

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• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

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• I've never been a size 0.

  

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• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

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• Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

  

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• Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

  

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• One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'

  

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• The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.

  

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• And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

  

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• Lawlessness doesn’t mean there’s no law, you know, it just means that there are a lot of different laws slugging it out in the streets, and none of them have come out on top yet.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Laws
  • Top
  • Come Out