Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I would love to do some theater.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.
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My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.
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I am going to be doing some practicing on Thursday and Friday and we run some qualifying heats on Saturday, ... I've wanted to do this for a while. I wanted to have a good car when we did it. I think we've got a good car.
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The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
