Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
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I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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I was a campaign widow.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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In the end, Tuesday's vote represented a repudiation of virtually every notion Democrats embraced in recent weeks as they tried to disregard the growing evidence that they were headed for a historic defeat. Now, the vote is in, and the voters' message can no longer be discounted.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
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A lot of people don't want to deal with the effort needed to secure your bitcoins. That's why we started to build Gemini, which is a U.S.-based exchange with compliance - it's NASDAQ, E-Trade and DTC built into one.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
