Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
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In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.
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Given the results of the government's War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, we can assume that a War on Abortion will lead within five years to men having abortions.
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The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!
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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
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I am a competitive figure skater. I've been doing that for the same amount of time I've been doing acting. Ever since I was two.
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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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The once-seen does not exist yet. The always seen no longer exists.
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When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.
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The sweets of Pillage can be known To no one but the Thief, Compassion for Integrity Is his divinest Grief.
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One is always homesick for places where one came to grief.
