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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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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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.
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Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.
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I am honored to have been chosen by Gov. Scott to serve Floridians as their lieutenant governor.
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Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
