Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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Fuck money. I don't rap for dead presidents; I'd rather see the president dead. It's never been said, but I set precedents.
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For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
