Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
It is such a hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, bt the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I will run against anybody.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
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In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect - connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.
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I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
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I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.
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I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.
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It is such a hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, bt the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
