Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
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As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.
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Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
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I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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«We are feelings and have human beings.»
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.
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We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
