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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People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.
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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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Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
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America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.
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I think that popular culture takes a long time to catch up to what's actually happening in the world. Women have had to take care of themselves for quite a while. Actually, not had to take of themselves, but have wanted to take care of themselves, so I think it's a big transition that our country and our society has been going through a long time.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
