Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.Ursula K. Le Guin
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
Oprah Winfrey -
I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
Daniel Boulud -
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
Rakul Preet Singh
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
Gary Herbert -
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
Dalai Lama -
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann -
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch -
Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
Omari Hardwick -
That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
Cara Delevingne
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
Maeve Binchy -
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
Zubin Mehta -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron -
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White -
I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
Owain Yeoman -
Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
Samora Machel
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
Yami Gautam -
I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
Caroline Kennedy -
I write music every day.
Lady Gaga -
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe -
When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and worry about air raids. I don't know whether or not those were realistic worries or not, but as a kid, when we all had to run around pulling down the drapes and turning the lights off; it was a very frightening experience.
George A. Romero -
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin