Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Choose
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• Demon

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• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
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• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

  Patrick Chan
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  • Career
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• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

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• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
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• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• 'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.

  

  Yehuda Berg
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• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
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  • Work
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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Want
  • Me
  • Myself

• A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Rights
  • Estate
  • Requests

• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • History
  • Language

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

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• When you pray, things remain the same, but you begin to be different. The same thing when a man falls in love, his circumstances and conditions remain the same, but he has a sovereign preference in his heart for another person which transfigures everything!

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Circumstances

• I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Stupid
  • Lies

• We find ourselves in what I consider to be the most challenging, difficult, threatening time since World War II because of this War on Terror.

  

  Rick Perry
  • World
  • War
  • Challenges

• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

  

  Kabir
  • Water
  • Vision
  • Laughing

• In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • War
  • Human
  • Choose