Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
Earl Campbell
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
Dan Castellaneta
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
Fedor Emelianenko
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
Hari Kunzru
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
Gabrielle Aplin
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
Mahesh Babu
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Just when you think that you thought that the guys in Billy Talent partied and did coke and had sex with all these hookers, we actually talk about architecture and, eh...history.
Benjamin Kowalewicz
Billy Talent
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I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
Beatrix of the Netherlands
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
John Travolta
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I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.
Robert Pozen
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There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
