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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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.
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What did we build it for? Was it all a dream? . . .Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam . . .And after a while they will fall to dust and rain;Or else we will tear them down with impatient hands;And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
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We talk different languages, eat different foods, but all humanity has one ancestor, which started from one person, which started from one god.
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I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.
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My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
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In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
