Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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The days of the 'intuitive' manager are numbered.
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Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.
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This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.
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I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.
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The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
