Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
'We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?'
Quotes to Explore
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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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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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'It must be remembered that Dupach is more than half Negro, and due to the peculiar mentality of this Race, they seem unable to rise to prominence without losing their equilibrium.'
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I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.
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The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.
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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
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I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.
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'We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?'
