Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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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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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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When my looks are shot-which I reckon will be in about six years-I’ll have plastic surgery here on my chin, and they can pull my cheeks back, but I’m not ready for that. And because of the smoking, the mouth is starting to give.
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They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!
