Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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Parenting is tough.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
