Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
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If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.
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It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
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I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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Kolkata is special. I have been privileged to spend time in the city and make some great friends there. I like to go there whenever I can.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
