Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
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I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.
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Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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It is the queen of architecture. Other buildings may be as famous, but no other is so consistently admired for a beauty that is seen as both feminine and regal. Many people feel that to class Taj Mahal as architecture is a mistake: it is both too personal and too magnificent.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
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I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
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Classroom discussion is where you learn how to debate an idea and stick with an opinion, even when others don't agree - and not take it personally, either.
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I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.
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When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.
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… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
