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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I don't calculate my net worth.
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Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
