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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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 tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.
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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!
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Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.
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Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
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There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
