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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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 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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I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
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If I am confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain consistency and continuity with the policies established during the Greenspan years.
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In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.
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Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
