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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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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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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A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
