Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I’m sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.
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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it.
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He looks once in my eyes, a question still there. But we are beyond questions. We are in a plsce where there are only answers, and my answer to him is yes.
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Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I’m sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes.
