Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.
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When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
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My Shangri-la has gone away, Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude She seemed to drift out on the rain That came in somewhere softly from the blue.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
