Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That’s the only way to look at things, I always say,” propounded the Duke. “Slantways, sideways, and upside down.”
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
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I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.
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If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
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That’s the only way to look at things, I always say,” propounded the Duke. “Slantways, sideways, and upside down.”
