Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power -
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
Dani Shapiro -
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
Paddy Ashdown -
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian -
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie -
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford -
I love working with women.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
Ralph Nader -
I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
Yani Tseng
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
Osric Chau -
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
Nancy Gibbs -
When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
Gavyn Davies -
To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.
H. Rap Brown -
People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
Karen Maitland
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The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain -
Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
Pamela Anderson -
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.
Jane Austen -
Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
Alphonse Daudet -
How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
Catherynne M. Valente