Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
Maajid Nawaz
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
Yakov Smirnoff
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.
Iggy Pop
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What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.
Saint Basil
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
A. S. Byatt
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I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
Zubin Mehta
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Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.
Maggie Stiefvater
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When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.
Parker Palmer
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
Angelus Silesius
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I grew up with a lot of brothers and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really important to develop my sisterhood. It's something I've always coveted.
Mickalene Thomas
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I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence.
Salma Hayek
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As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
Jonathan Sacks
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My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.
John Niven
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I said to one of them, 'Look after the baby, I've got washing,' because we've got washable nappies. I said, 'Look after the baby. Entertain her, do some words,' because she's saying words, 'Do any words.' So I came back after I scraped all the stuff off, and he was going, 'Say, ‘Wigan Athletic!’'
Tamsin Greig
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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
Catherynne M. Valente
