Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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I like heels and make-up.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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We need to begin thinking about building permanence on the Red Planet, not just have voyagers do some experiments, plant a flag and claim success. Having them go there, repeat this, in my view, is dim-witted. Why not stay there?
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My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
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The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, that drifting apart and losing friends is natural. You don't worry, at first, about the friends you leave behind. But as you get older, it gets harder to build friendships. Too many defenses, too little opportunity. You get busy. And by the time you realize that you've lost the dearest best friend you've ever had, years have gone by and you're mature enough to be embarrassed by your attitude and, frankly, by your arrogance.
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It's very difficult to do, especially when you get up in age, to go back out every single day with the same intensity.
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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
