Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.
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Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.
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Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?
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Why should we do it? We have done so many songs, during such a long time. The fact that we had two divorces, and there was no meaning, I think, with getting together, again.
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La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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All of my stuff is raw, it's emotive, it's real.
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
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I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.
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I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.
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Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that time.
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Reading is my greatest luxury.
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My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten their money's worth.
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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
