Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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My granddad used to mind me at weekends, and if the game was on, and you wanted to get across the room, you had to crawl under the TV. So I've always been a Liverpool fan, and meeting Steven Gerrard was massive for me. He knew who I was before we'd even said hello!
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.
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We get 150 notices a week for seminars.
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Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
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I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.
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My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.
