Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
Zach Anner
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
Barry Marshall
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
Mandy Moore
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
Karel Reisz
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People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
Yoko Ono
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I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
Otis Rush
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Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
Ralph Ransom
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'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.
Linus Torvalds
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
Henry David Thoreau
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They come to have a party for themselves, and we're kind of a house band for their party.
Jason Mraz
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I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.
Chris Lane
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I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
Matt LeBlanc
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Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."
Joe Elliott
Def Leppard
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How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
David Hockney
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No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
Herbert Spencer
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The Amman Agreement failed because there was American pressure, and Israeli pressure, on Jordan to deal alone.
Yasser Arafat
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Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.
Catherynne M. Valente
