Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams
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The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.
Alice Waters
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Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
Mariella Frostrup
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My brother and I became convinced that to buy and sell legally sheared vicuna hair was the only way to help the vicuna increase in numbers. If the animal becomes useful to society, people will take care of the animal; if it's not useful, they will not take care.
Pier Luigi Loro Piana
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Every high school I went to, I joined in the middle of the year, so sports helped. But you see a lot of bullies when you move to eight states, I'll say that.
Pierce Brown
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My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
Joaquin Phoenix
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Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.
Pete Hoekstra
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
Jeremy Northam
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Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
J. I. Packer
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
Abigail Washburn
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People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property.
Harry Triguboff
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A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.
Catherynne M. Valente