Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
Action Bronson -
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
Pamela Stephenson -
I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
Caitlin Fitzgerald -
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams -
Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
Cara Castronuova -
I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
Fiona Dourif
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
Zara Larsson -
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
Randy Pausch -
There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden -
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson -
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
Ma Rainey
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When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian.
Larry Fitzgerald -
I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
Vijender Singh -
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Wade Boggs -
You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
Viggo Mortensen -
I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.
Pamela Anderson -
While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
Rachel Sklar
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It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.
Jon Bon Jovi -
Achievement has no color.
Abraham Lincoln -
An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
Clifton Fadiman -
Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
Mark McKinnon -
I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
Catherynne M. Valente