Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.Catherynne M. Valente
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
Pardis Sabeti -
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg -
Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
Queen Latifah -
Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
Carlos Slim -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
Tamsin Egerton -
If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
Lars von Trier -
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
Harold Pinter -
Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
Salman Khurshid -
I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
Jaclyn Smith
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
Otis Blackwell -
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
Olympia Dukakis -
It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
J. K. Simmons -
Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
Kacey Musgraves -
Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.
Kyra Sedgwick -
'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
R. J. Cutler -
I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.
Lennie James -
John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.
Bill Richardson -
People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.
Ben Affleck -
Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
Catherynne M. Valente