Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.

Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente

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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

Karen Hughes
- Travel
- Economy
- Tourism
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

Gavin Rossdale Bush
- Live
- Like
- Audience
I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

C. J. Mahaney
- Heart
- Myself
- Find
It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

Fabrizio Moreira
- Business
- Strong
- Small
Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

Zhang Zhidong
- Work
- Culture
- Enemy
My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

Faith Evans
- Music
- School
- Pretty