Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
Dalai Lama
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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I've always been passionate about fashion.
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I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.
Miranda Lambert -
Working at a fulfillment center is definitely not the most glamorous job. I know because, in the early days, that's what I did, day in and day out. I had a tape gun in my hand, and I taped boxes.
Chieh Huang -
Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.
Hayden Fry -
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
Young Jeezy -
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
Ursula K. Le Guin