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.

Catherynne M. Valente

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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.

  

  Warren Beatty
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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.

  

  Kate Walsh
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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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
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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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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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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• We doubt not the destiny of our country - that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

  

  Margaret Fuller
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• But if we can’t help our latent biases, we can help our behavior in response to those instinctive reactions, which is why we work to design systems and processes that overcome that very human part of us all. Although the research may be unsettling, it is what we do next that matters most.

  

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• I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

  

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• Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.

  

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• Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.

  

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• My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.

  

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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.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Show