Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
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It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.
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The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
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I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
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Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
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God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
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After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
