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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
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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.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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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.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Say
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• Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Hand
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• I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Well
  • Ease
  • Rapping

• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
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• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

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  • Think
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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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  • Time
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• Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nothing

• 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.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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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.

  

  Damian Lewis
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  • Character
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• When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

  

  Patricia Neal
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• I do not favor the gag order.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Order
  • Favor
  • Gag

• I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Life
  • Nice

• The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor—they never overlap, do they?See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?Losing weight and looking like the poor.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • Dream

• So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

  

  Kathryn Joosten
  • Life
  • Rest
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• Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Character
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Single
  • Famous
  • Sea