Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Ridiculous
  • Drive
  • Fast

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War
  • Future

• If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Butter

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• 'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Everyone
  • Started
  • Rumors

• One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Loved

• I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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  • Way
  • President

• I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Music
  • Feeling

• My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Money
  • Friends

• I will be the answerAt the end of the line.I will be there for you,Why take the time?In the burning of uncertainty,I will be your solid ground.I will hold the balanceIf you can't look down.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
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• I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Light

• What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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  • Funny
  • Him

• We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.

  

  A. Theodore Tuttle
  • World
  • Power
  • Faith

• Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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