Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that’s how.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
Vicente Fox
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If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
Ian Mckellen
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler
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My biggest benching was before the 2012 Olympics. It kind of came out of nowhere. I just kind of had one bad half, 45 minutes, and it pretty much cost me my starting spot.
Carli Lloyd
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
Bashar al-Assad
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
Victoria Aveyard
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
Yolandi Visser
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Life is our dictionary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
Kalpana Chawla
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Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms - all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet…. The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.
Octavio Paz
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Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
Derek Magyar
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
Ted Cruz
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
John Donne
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The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation, and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss.
Amy Chozick
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
Freeman Dyson
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How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that’s how.
Catherynne M. Valente
