Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
Rahul Dravid -
I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
Pat Boone -
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
Nancy Grace -
You measure a government by how few people need help.
Patricia Schroeder -
I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
Kailash Kher -
We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
Ed Harris -
We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
Ian Gomez -
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Adam Carolla -
People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
Nargis Fakhri
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Karl Marx -
Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
Aeschylus -
Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
Marcus Buckingham -
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
Bruce Lee -
But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.
Neville Marriner -
We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
Terence McKenna
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes -
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
Janet Evanovich -
I love people. I enjoy people.
John Catsimatidis -
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
Catherynne M. Valente