Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti -
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
Camille Paglia -
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Bashar al-Assad -
I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
Rachel Nichols -
I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
Nanette Lepore -
It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
Hans Vestberg
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
Ymre Stiekema -
I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
Adam Green -
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
Laura Schlessinger -
My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
Candace Cameron Bure -
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
Gail Collins -
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
Fernando Pessoa -
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
Laurel Lea -
No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.
Leonard Lauder -
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
Emo Philips
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
Wayne Rogers -
'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
Dan Simmons -
I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.
Jared Polis -
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Life outraces memory.
Catherynne M. Valente