Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.Catherynne M. Valente
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
Gary Johnson -
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater -
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard -
No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
Kate Walsh -
Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
Ferdowsi -
It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
Walt Handelsman
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I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
Zooey Deschanel -
I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
D'Angelo -
He suspected the troops felt closer to somebody who spoke a different language but asked them questions than they did to somebody who shared their language and only ever used it to give orders.
Iain Banks -
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
Alan Coren -
You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
Hillary Clinton -
I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.
John Anderson
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There must be a little memory bank, a library or storage unit in my brain, that just tucks away memories of other people. I suck in as much of life as I can. I don't do it deliberately - I'm just curious. Dangerously so. I collect visual and aural patterns, physical human patterns, from experience.
Debra Lawrance -
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier -
You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross -
For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.
Patty Murray -
Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.
Dayananda Saraswati -
Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.
Andrea Riseborough
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Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
Sean Lennon -
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.
Abiola Abrams -
There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.
Frank Luntz -
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
Isabel Allende -
You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.
Catherynne M. Valente