Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
Ed Harris
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
Karan Johar
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
Katarina Witt
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
James Russell Lowell
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When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
Alice Hamilton
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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
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Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster;
There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so!
As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master,
And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe,
We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere,
The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.
Robert W. Service
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
Catherynne M. Valente
