Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.Ursula K. Le Guin
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh -
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
Adam McKay -
You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
Quentin Blake -
Sharing is the essence of social media.
Zoe Sugg -
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel -
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
Wendell Mayes
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray -
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes -
Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
Walter Russell Mead -
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
D. H. Lawrence -
We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
Ted Cruz
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving -
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Hanoi Hannah -
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
Dan Kaminsky -
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson -
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
Dan Harmon -
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
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My favorite wrestler growing up was Dean Malenko. He was a very technical wrestler, and when I trained with Shawn Michaels, he wasn't that kind of a technical wrestler. So, when I finally met Regal in 2001, he was that kind of a wrestler, and all of a sudden, I could ask him things, and he would know what I was talking about and how to do it.
Daniel Bryan -
Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.
Burton Richter -
I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.
Adrian Tomine -
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
Ursula K. Le Guin