Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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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.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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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.
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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.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
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In my opinion, the Hezbollah has going - they are going to discover sooner or later than in their top priority should preserve Lebanon.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
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You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
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Electricity was a part of the world from its creation, and therefore my Electra is as old as Daylight or Moonlight, and equally beneficent to mortals and fairies alike.
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When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
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Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.
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There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
