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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One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
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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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The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.
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In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.
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I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.
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As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.
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That’s the only way to look at things, I always say,” propounded the Duke. “Slantways, sideways, and upside down.”
