Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
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If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.
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If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.
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Out of sight, out of mind.
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I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.
