Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
Adam Davidson -
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
Mal Peet -
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
Gabriel Basso -
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
Gabriella Wilde -
I'm an emotional guy.
J. R. Martinez -
In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
Edd Byrnes -
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar -
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
Patricia Cornwell -
I don't want to get fat.
Sammy Sosa
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
Caitlin Doughty -
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
K. D. Lang -
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
Madeleine Peyroux -
You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
Canelo Alvarez -
They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
Ovid
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Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.
Bob Ney -
I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.
Lily Collins -
Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
Patricia Ireland -
Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day.
Brandon Victor Dixon -
Manipulated, one manipulates others.
Ursula K. Le Guin