Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
Carlos Ghosn
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
Baba Kalyani
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
Vicki Baum
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Zoe Kazan
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
Nancy O'Dell
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
Fidel Castro
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
Ralph Fiennes
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I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
Olivia Williams
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
Bryan Magee
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The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.
Jason Calacanis
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Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
Meshell Ndegeocello
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
Marcel Proust
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That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
Catherynne M. Valente