Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Global

• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guitar
  • Times
  • Bass

• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Wise Man

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

  

  Hans Frank
  • August
  • Join
  • Officer

• Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Dance
  • Laugh

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

  

  Susie Orbach
  • Place
  • Worked
  • Bodies

• Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller

• I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Welcome

• Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Faith
  • Myself

• Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Technology
  • Magic
  • Bubbles

• I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Man
  • Hurt
  • Going To