Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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suggest that we think of theories as spotlight. this imagery is useful. a spotlight will only illuminate so much. wiht any theory there will always be the things that are left in darkness, still unexamined and unexplained. parsons referred to these as'residual categories'.
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So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.
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Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.
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Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
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My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.
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I prefer games with many goals.
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Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
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I remember her as being a huge inspiration to me, someone to really look up to and admire.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.
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But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
