Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
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I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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You go to see movies to feel something, and being terrified - there's something so fun about that.
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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
