Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I am who I am.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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Look what I found; a litter version of the Internet! This used to be something that could convert carbon dioxide to oxygen using only sunlight, water, and a few nutrients. But now it's way cooler; it has two functions. You can either put little words on it, or crumple it up into a tiny ball and throw it! 27.
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I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay? If that word – ‘marriage’ – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.
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In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?
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I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
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I'm just a low-key guy.
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I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.
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My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.
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I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.
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True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
