Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'Why must there be war?' 'Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.'
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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Everything I say is true.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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The true battlefield is within.
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There is absolutely no truth to that statement. Iran has not, repeat not, been enriching in secret.
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'Why must there be war?' 'Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men.'
