Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan -
To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
Dale Dauten -
I am surrounded by great people.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Francesca Annis -
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
Naomi Wolf -
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton -
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
Brown Campbell -
I only seem to date younger women.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
Park Geun-hye -
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick -
There's so much to be afraid of.
Barry Lopez -
Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
Zooey Deschanel -
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
Samuel Gompers -
I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.
Nate Torrence
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As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
Dennis Farina -
Two is enough for a secret.
Agatha Christie -
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Buenaventura Durruti -
Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.
Billy Joel -
No man has any influence or power for good when angry.
J. Golden Kimball -
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
Ursula K. Le Guin