Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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Pilates is great.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
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Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.
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Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.
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I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.
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We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
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The God-honest truth is that Jeff and I just do what we do. You have no control. We didn't have control last year, or the year before either, or the year before that. We can only do what we do, which is to make the show that we love, continue to follow the path for the stories that we want to tell, tell great and compelling stories, week-to-week, that interest our fans, and really hope for the best.
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In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action.
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Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
