Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I was born and raised in a small village, and I didn't even think I was especially pretty.
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I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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On my first day in office as President Quavo, I'd move my whole family into the White House. Second, I'd pull all the troops back. Third, I'd raise the minimum wage to a good, nice amount so people get paid.
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I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.
