Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There a difference between having been coded to present a vast set of standardized responses to certain human facial, vocal, and linguistic states and having evolved to exhibit response B to input A in order to bring about a desired social result?
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.
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The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Brandon's super important to us and what we decided was it was probably best for the team and for him to put him on IR instead of rushing him back.
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I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.
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I always played soccer in Adidas, but I always wore Nikes. I love street sportswear.
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If you consider that a single straight line can be drawn between any two points, one day I'm going to draw a line from him to me or me to him.
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If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
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Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.
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I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.
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There a difference between having been coded to present a vast set of standardized responses to certain human facial, vocal, and linguistic states and having evolved to exhibit response B to input A in order to bring about a desired social result?
