Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.
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You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.
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Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.
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March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Don't feel bad if you did not know that. I didn't, either, until someone recently slapped a picture of a green ribbon and a message wishing me a 'Happy CP Awareness Month' on my Facebook page. I always thought March was Women's History Month.
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There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
