Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
Aaron Eckhart
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
Victoria Moran
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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Not even on finding himself in a well-ordered house does a man step forward and say to himself, I must be master here! Else the lord of that house takes notice of it, and, seeing him insolently giving orders, drags him forth and chastises him. So it is also in the great City, the World. Here also is there a Lord of the House, who orders all things... (110).
Epictetus
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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Eric Hoffer
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I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.
Andy Rooney
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The thing is that, often if you have time to research a role, sometimes it's hard to know exactly where to start.
Corey Stoll
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
Catherynne M. Valente