Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Goblins are well-rounded, though you’d never think it from the dastard tales folk tell of us. For example, I enjoy stamp collecting as well as haggling.
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I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now, when I'm in a suit and tie all the time, sitting and being driven, you can just feel your body.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
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I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.'
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
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Goblins are well-rounded, though you’d never think it from the dastard tales folk tell of us. For example, I enjoy stamp collecting as well as haggling.
