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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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
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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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In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
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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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I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.
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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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'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
