Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
Ralph Boston -
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds -
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips -
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
Vash Young -
I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Eddie Izzard -
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel
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I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel -
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.
Hampton Sides -
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.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Yuvraj Singh -
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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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.
Naguib Mahfouz -
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.
Laura Harring -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln -
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan -
I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
Nadia Comaneci
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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.
George R. R. Martin -
Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
Barack Obama -
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Desmond Tutu -
I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
Keeley Hawes -
Technically, the Hurricane might have been able to win the Battle of Britain on its own. But for keeping up the spirits of the people on the ground while running rings round anything the Third Reich could throw at it? That was the job of the Spitfire, a symbol of British brilliance, a symbol of hope.
Jeremy Clarkson -
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin