Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Parents
  • Team

• The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • War
  • Worst
  • Objectives

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Used
  • Prosperity
  • Instrument

• Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Couple
  • Loved
  • Follow

• I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Meaningful

• I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.

  

  Maluma
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pretty

• The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • Search
  • Transparency

• I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Morning
  • Car
  • Driving

• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Good
  • Emotional

• Every guy has different strengths in the NFL. Receivers are different, running backs are different, but they all have that one thing that they do that's special: that thing that keeps them on the roster every year.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Running

• There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Voice

• When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Imagination
  • Doing

• I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Team

• Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • You
  • Famous

• If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Discipline
  • Piano
  • Obligation

• You stand up to that challenging shot, you put yourself into that shot, and you pour yourself into it confidently. Stand up and commit yourself completely. If you miss it, you miss it certainly. You've done everything you can.

  

  Debbie Massey
  • Yourself
  • Stand
  • Certainly

• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Feet
  • Stand
  • Not