Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn’t built the world. It had nothing to do with him.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
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I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
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But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
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If you have time to get your pet rabbit its own Instagram account, you have time to at least tweet about something important.
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'Fare well!' 'A whole world of pain is contained in these words.' How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
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The children of the prophets of the Lord,Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate.Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,The West refused them, and the East abhorred.No anchorage the known world could afford.
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On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.
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My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.
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So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.
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Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn’t built the world. It had nothing to do with him.
