Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
Gary Herbert
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
Rafael Nadal
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
Natascha McElhone
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Truth is the best defense.
Ward Churchill
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Everyone else is just cocktails.
Charlotte Bronte
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I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
Barkhad Abdi
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Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
Henri Rousseau
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It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
Catherynne M. Valente
