Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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I train to be the champion.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.
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Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.
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The products I review are typically lent to me by their manufacturers for a few weeks or months. I return any products I am lent for review, except for items of minor value that companies typically don't want back. In the case of these items, I either discard them or give them away to charity.
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
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We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.
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William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's 'Family' I adore.
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Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.
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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
