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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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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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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My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
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Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.
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It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
