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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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 think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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Never underestimate your potential for Jannah.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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Islam will win with or without you. But without Islam, you will be lost and you will loose.
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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.
