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'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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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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A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it.
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What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked. Yet, more often than not, this is the more important story: What policy wins if the one being disclosed loses?
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They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
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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?'
