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 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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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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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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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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Most things still remain to be done!
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I was sixteen when suddenlyI wasn't that little girl you used to see.But your eyes still shined like pretty lights,And our daddies used to joke about the two of us.They never believed we'd really fall in love.And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyesAnd said oh my my my...
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Forget the telly, we just go to the crib, watch a movie in the Jacuzzi and smoke Ls while you do me.
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You only get better by playing.
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You can't be a human and a guy and not connect with Pippin... I often feel like Pippin. I come offstage sometimes like 'Oh my God, I've got to do this next time! I've gotta go there. I'm going to make this choice.'
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There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
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'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'
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After all the stops and starts, we keep coming back to these two hearts. Two angels rescued from the fall, and after all that we've been through, it all comes down to me and you. I guess it's meant to be, forever, you and me, after all.
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You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
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If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
