Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
M.I.A. -
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming -
When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
Maggie Q -
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes -
In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
Zach McGowan -
Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
Frances O'Grady
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
Hamish Bowles -
If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
Randy Moss -
I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
Omari Hardwick -
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Victoria Woodhull
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
Dakota Fanning -
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
Walton Goggins -
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
Zaha Hadid -
Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
Samuel Beckett
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Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.
Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach -
Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.
George Horace Lorimer -
I always felt like we were here to do a job, so you should be out there practicing and playing.
Logan Mankins -
It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.
Catherynne M. Valente