Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Memory
  • Complicated

• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Action
  • Hero

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Differences
  • Common

• I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Makeup

• With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Evolution

• My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Men
  • Results
  • Realize

• The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Fashion
  • Secret
  • Hollywood

• I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • Identity

• Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Leadership

• What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Art
  • Power

• Early on, I didn't intend to have children. I thought it was too difficult a world for them. But then it happened, and I am thrilled to have them now.

  

  John Hurt
  • World
  • Children

• If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Choose
  • Seeing