Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

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• For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.

  

  Zach Anner
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• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
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• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
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• I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

  

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• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

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• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

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• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

  

  Kabir Bedi
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• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
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• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

  

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• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

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• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
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• I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'

  

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• Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.

  

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• ..I have never managed to grasp what exactly 'pataphysics' consisted of; but in short what I have always seen in it is a desire to disconnect philosophy from the discipline of logic, and to admit incoherence as a legitimate component of it. comment on visiting frequently the Collège de 'Pataphysique'

  

  Jean Dubuffet
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• Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
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• I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own.

  

  Jon Hamm
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• I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking