Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
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I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.
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The wise are wise only because they love.
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The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.