Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?Ursula K. Le Guin
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
J. C. Chandor -
Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.
Ralph Boston -
Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
Olivia d'Abo -
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine Albright
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
Jack Dorsey -
Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
Taufik Hidayat -
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee -
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
Omar Bongo -
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
Gayle Forman -
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom -
Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
Paddy Considine -
I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
Bai Ling -
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
A. A. Milne -
In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
Barbara Demick
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Our aim is to be at the top at the World Cup and such setbacks may be even good in the long run, we can learn from them
Oliver Bierhoff -
Ignobly vain, and impotently great.
Alexander Pope -
There's no such thing as holding back. I want to finish as soon as possible. The only time I did it was because he was a friend of mine. It was against Thales Leites. We went until the last round because he's a friend of mine, and I respect him.
Anderson Silva -
That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.
Mark Sanchez -
I'm like a famous person to some people, not to everybody. I want to be big.
Rakim Hasheem Allen -
What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?
Ursula K. Le Guin