Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
Dana Carvey -
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny -
I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
Dale Earnhardt -
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
J. Paul Getty -
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
Damian Marley -
After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
Yuichiro Miura
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
Barbara Jordan -
Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
Natasha Leggero -
I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Yunjin Kim -
The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the 'essential doctrines' of the Christian religion he does not even mention.
Florence Nightingale -
The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
Random events often come like the raisins in a box of cereal - in groups, streaks, and clusters. And although Fortune is fair in potentialities, she is not fair in outcomes.
Leonard Mlodinow
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
Lewis Mumford -
'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
Elie Wiesel -
'Moral police' is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor's lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
Katrina Kaif -
Amandla Stenberg is so powerful in her energy and what she speaks about and what she projects. I think it's incredible.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
Jean Paul Gaultier -
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
William Shakespeare -
O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
Dante Alighieri -
I grew up knowing about Ted Bundy because I grew up in Aspen and that is one of the places he kept escaping from. I remember one of the times he had escaped the Pitkin County Jail, my stepfather sat outside with a shotgun because everyone knew Bundy had escaped and so everybody was on alert.
Boti Bliss -
I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
Catherynne M. Valente