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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The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.
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I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang of kids from the wrong side of the tracks in Sixties Oklahoma. I grew up in the Eighties in Nottinghamshire, but this tale of troubled, but essentially good, kids - or 'greasers' - was something I completely connected with.
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There’s seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
