Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident
Catherynne M. Valente
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
Garrett Clayton
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
Camille Paglia
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
Gary McCord
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Salman Rushdie
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
Rafael dos Anjos
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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'I would define ‘avarice’ as a consequence of the human estate: a condition arising from turbulence and inequality. In none of the paradises, where conditions are no doubt optimum, does ‘avarice’ exert force. Here, we are men struggling toward perfection and ‘avarice’ is a station along the way.'
Jack Vance
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
Jack McDevitt
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You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
Anthony Bourdain
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Life is everything and nothing all at once.
Billy Corgan
The Smashing Pumpkins
