Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
Randeep Hooda -
In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
Baba Kalyani -
When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
Kate Bush -
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
Patricia Highsmith -
The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
Adam Grant -
The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
Al Pacino -
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
Charles M. Blow -
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
Shane Carruth -
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?
Steve Martin -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
Oswald Chambers -
With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Douglas Jerrold -
It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.
Gerry Adams -
I am sustained by Being Necessary.
Catherynne M. Valente