Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.
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I think my spirit is far greater than it's ever been.
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Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
