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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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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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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I have just one tube of lipstick, but it's as big as a can of hairspray.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
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If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.
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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.
