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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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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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.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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Difficulty comes not only because of your mistakes, but once you try to make an excuse or accuse someone else, your mind stops thinking.
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I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.
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The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
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I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
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Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.
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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.
