Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
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The issue of spiritual power is to meet the limited mortal circumstance with unlimited thought.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
