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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These kids tend to be extremely driven and have a good understanding of who they are and what their role is in the community.
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One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ.
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The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
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One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
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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.
