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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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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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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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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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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I'm completely the opposite of an etiquette icon. I'm brash, and I don't follow any social rules, really. I'm nice, but really, I'm the least-put-together lady in the world.
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
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Physical development fosters learning.
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If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
