Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
Aaron Rodgers
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
Paloma Faith
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You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.
Patrick Ness
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If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.
Barack Obama
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Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.
N. T. Wright
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If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!
Charles Dickens
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I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.
Sara Blakely
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I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest signs saying "We are not Americans." And they have no real warmth for being the 50th state.
Sarah Vowell
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
Albert Camus
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For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.
Oprah Winfrey
