Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
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Helena Bonham Carter was one of my biggest crushes. And Rachel Weisz. I think I told her that when we were filming, which was probably a bit embarrassing.
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When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.