Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
