Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
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To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.
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Ziggler is one of those guys who don't get all of the credit he deserves for being so good consistently for so long.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
