Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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My first vocation was dance.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
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Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.
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I’m ambivalent. I like Gekko, which is partly why Michael Douglas did so well…. Gekko is despicable but kinda fun too.
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It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
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«The decisions are made in the moment they are made.»
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He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
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好雨知时节
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
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Going was easy. Keep on going was hard.
