Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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God bless nannies.
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There is always pressure in football.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
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The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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People tune into court shows because they want to learn something and see resolution quickly.
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Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.
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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
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When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
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I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
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A father is nowhere near as valuable as a spoon.
