Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
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I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways people do things are equally accurate ways to do things. Someone else just came up with something different.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
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Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action . . . they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.
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Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
