Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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Practices were tough.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.
