Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.

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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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I've played this game from 12-under to the over-70s. So when they say tennis is a game from the cradle to the grave, you truly have it right.
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I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.
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We haven't been able to transform it into a discipline where you can simply and predictably engineer biological systems. It means the complexity of things we can make and can afford to make are quite limited.
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Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.