Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
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Our Heavenly Father has provided many delightful inns for us along our journey, but he takes great care to see that we do not mistake any of them for home.
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.
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I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
