Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
Rachael Ray
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
Gail Collins
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Abbas Kiarostami
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If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'
Patrick Wilson
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Jack Welch
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I will sell all other things before JYSK. That's my baby, and you don't sell your baby.
Lars Larsen
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I regularly encourage employees to break rules. I also say to employees that leadership starts with complaining and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't stop there. It comes from saying you're dissatisfied with something and then fixing it and making it better for everybody.
Mark Pincus
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
Maya Angelou
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In his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store of books he had brought for their new home. Among these were many for little children - picture books, primers, readers - for they had known that their little child would be old enough for such before they might hope to return to England.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.
Edwidge Danticat
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All wars are waged against children
Eglantyne Jebb
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Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.
Catherynne M. Valente
