Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
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I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.
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The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
