Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
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I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.
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I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.
