Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
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You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I was a sports kid.
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People have a tendency to blame politicians when things don't work, but as I always tell people, you get the politicians you deserve. And if you don't vote and you don't pay attention, you'll get policies that don't reflect your interest.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.
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La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.
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More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.
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If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
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My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
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When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
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The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
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I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.
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I'm not witty.
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You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.
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Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
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I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.
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'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
