Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

Catherynne M. Valente

• Time
• Enough
• Blessing
• Youth
• Cruelty

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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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• 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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• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

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• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

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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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  • Life
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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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  • Sound
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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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• So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

  

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• One day it dawned on her that life was not going to happen some time in the future. She realized that her happiness was right here and now.

  

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• The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Time
  • Enough
  • Blessing