Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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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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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.
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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
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Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
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I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
