Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
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I started in investment banking at Allen & Company in 1991. It was the go-go days of media mergers, and we were incredibly busy with one deal after another. Unlike typical investment banking groups, even in the midst of merger mania, we didn't have a formal face-time culture - and I felt empowered by that.
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The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.
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I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world.
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.
