Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I think of myself as a shy, modest, relatively unassuming person.
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The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.
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Politicians - in both political parties - spend too much money. And they forget to focus on what matters most: fixing the economic mess they created and putting people back to work.
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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
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The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.
