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 feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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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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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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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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The Libor system is structurally flawed. It is a major problem for our financial system and for the confidence in the financial system. We need to address it.
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I'll get arrested. Whatever happens to me, fair enough. I think about the next one I'm going to do. But I just want people to laugh.
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We all seek purpose in life. Most of us wonder how we can make a positive difference during our brief time on earth. But asking and doing are different things.
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Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.
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The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
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But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
