Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan -
I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
Carl Lewis -
People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
Ines de La Fressange -
One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.
Rainn Wilson -
If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
Pankaj Mishra -
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton
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It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
Iain Sinclair -
You become the average of the five people you hang out with.
Drew Houston -
Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
Vivienne Westwood -
It is remarkable how a seemingly insignificant action or event can change entire lives.
William P. Young -
We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
Diogenes
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Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
Blaise Pascal -
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen -
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
Roger Taylor Queen -
Any time I get to blow bubbles pretty much lights me up.
David Helvarg -
Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons -
Histories are instruments of oppression.
Catherynne M. Valente