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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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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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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Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.
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I AM NOTHING.Nothing but a pale shape.
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I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.
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I got out of the music industry many years ago. I had a charlatan for a producer who I wanted nothing to do with. He's dead now, so I guess I can't beat that horse any more. It left a very bad taste in my mouth, so I just went on about my business doing what I do and not involving myself with record companies, except for distribution.
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Of all the jobs I've had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.
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If you watch '90210,' you see my hair changing every episode - I've chopped it off, and I've kept it long. I've done it all to my hair on that show.
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Giving birth was probably the most empowering thing I've ever done physically. I was like, 'Now I can do anything. I can run a marathon... I can run three marathons!'
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There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
