Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
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You're not a man, you're a machine.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
