Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
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We have seen many instances where the free world didn't seem to understand the nature of evil or the battle against evil in their time. We've watched Nazism and fascism and imperial Japan and communism and totalitarianism, and now it seems to be we're all battling against terrorism.
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I'm a huge baseball fan. I always liked Marge, and I just wanted a couple of her things.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
