Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
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'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
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I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
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They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
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If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?
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It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters live.
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What a wonderful thing is to be able to contribute to the restoration of someone's health. It's not only a feeling that I'm worth something, but that I have something to contribute.
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Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience.
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You will have a great deal of unreserved discourse with Mrs. K., I dare say, upon this subject, as well as upon many other of our family matters. Abuse everybody but me.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Cuando no ando en las nubes, ando como perdido.
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I always concentrate on respecting human beings and their lives and the meaning within their lives, and I believe that is something people around the world can appreciate.
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The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
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I did write a lot of TV themes - I wrote about 45 of them, and a couple of which are still reference and popular today, like 'Diff'rent Strokes' and 'Facts of Life.' But I was a limited musician.
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Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.
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The price of freedom is the probability of crime. The price of protection is the probability of slavery.
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Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.
