Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I loved ninjas when I was younger.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
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As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
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You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
