Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
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You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I was a sports kid.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.
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La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
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More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.
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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
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If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
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My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
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When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
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The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
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I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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People have really taken Mrs. Brown to their hearts. I think she reminds them of their own mammies... Fierce and scary but full of love.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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It's troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population.
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I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.
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'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
