Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
Paloma Faith
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
Foster Friess
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
Walter Cronkite
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The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
Raney Aronson-Rath
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard
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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
Uri Geller
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
Taraji P. Henson
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I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.
Queen Latifah
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
Walter Cronkite
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
Ida Lupino
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I like being by myself.
Larry Bird
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
Fantasia Barrino
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I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
Halima Aden
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
Kaja Foglio
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
Omar Bongo
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
John Calvin
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The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?
John Morton
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The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.
Umberto Eco
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Since sounds have no natural connection with our ideas … the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their signification … has its cause more in the ideas they stand for than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than another to signify any idea.
John Locke Nazareth
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
Ursula K. Le Guin