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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If we can unlock the full potential of the World Bank Group staff, I think we can have an even more transformational impact in country after country in the world.
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The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
