Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Good
  • Political

• In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Daily
  • Security
  • Reflect

• Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Pressure

• We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Fighting

• My brain's dead weight, I'm tryin' to get my head straight, but I can't figure out which Spice Girl I want to impregnate.

  

  Eminem
  • Girl
  • Brain

• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Work
  • Art
  • War

• I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Animal

• Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Alone

• The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.

  

  Kurt Vile

• You could have everything right but be in the wrong place. You think your business is no good, but really, the problem is your place is no good.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Good
  • Business

• Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • People

• When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Up
  • Growing

• I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • Girl

• I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band

• From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.

  

  Asafa Powell
  • Planning

• We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Racism

• Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel

• I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • Today
  • Education
  • Amazing

• It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revo­lution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.

  

  Amadeo Bordiga
  • Revolution
  • Capitalism
  • Russia

• Cats are only human, they have their faults.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Human
  • Faults
  • Cats

• There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Good
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Crush
  • Tyrant
  • Murderous