Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Dark
  • Losing

• Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Technology
  • Generation
  • Walk

• Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Country
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• 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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Mean
  • Week
  • Class

• 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.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wish

• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Fighting
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Hate
  • Argument
  • Europe

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Here come the planes. They're American planes. Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking?

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • American
  • America
  • Smoking

• 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.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Good
  • Song
  • Car

• I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Character

• When I named it 'Girl Problems,' I knew I would be inviting some interesting questions and some funny questions, but that was the cool part about it - I wanted that.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• All of my stuff is raw, it's emotive, it's real.

  

  Archy Ivan Marshall
  • Real

• My mom used to be concerned 'cause I would never go outside. And when I'd go outside, I'd have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I'd just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, 'My son is strange.'

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

  

  Fred Astaire
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Search

• There's always a ton of emotion coming from me, so I'm really excited to share it.

  

  Bishop Briggs

• She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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