Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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 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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«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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We Conservatives...are realists. We know that the British are one of the most creative and gifted peoples on earth. But we also know that the British are individualists, who do not respond to state direction and control. We like leadership-yes. But, above all, we like freedom.
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Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' is where I got the title 'Momentary Masters.'
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
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Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented.
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I try to relish each of the roles I play in life. If I'm cooking dinner for the kids, I throw on my polka-dotted apron. I might don a smart blazer if I am doing a work presentation. If I play a rock show, there may indeed be glitter and fishnets involved. It's my way of saying, 'Thank you, I am glad to be here.'
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There is no doubt that the new wave in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.
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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
