Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'
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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
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The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
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One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.
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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
