Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.
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I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.
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I think nudity is related to everything.
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
