Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I've never been a partier.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.
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I am always drawn to father/son stories.
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People seem to think I'm Satan.
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If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
