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 wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

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• Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Universe
  • Painting
  • Patterns

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Behind
  • Leading

• Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
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• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Actress

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Security

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Kids
  • Military
  • Traveling

• I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Time
  • Favorite

• 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
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• 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
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Important
  • Women
  • Way

• 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
  • Up
  • May
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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
  • You
  • Baby
  • Will

• 'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Pretty
  • Cheesy

• Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Influence
  • Reasonableness

• Cancer isn't going to slow me down.

  

  Ethan Zohn
  • Cancer
  • Slow Down

• I don't know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you're a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that's not the case.

  

  Debbie Gibson
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Interesting

• 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
  • Children
  • Cannot
  • Switches