Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.
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Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Cute girls and burgers. What more can you ask for? That's why we live in America.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
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What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.
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Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.
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When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.
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I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.
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No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.
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It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.
