Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Time is no one's friend - time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
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The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
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Time is no one's friend - time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
