Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.
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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
