Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
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I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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Honey, I just forgot to duck.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
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I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.
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If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
