Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of - how shall I say, I don’t know.
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Films come and go. Families stay.
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It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!
