Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
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I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.
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Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.
