Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• Society
• Freedom
• Law
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• Punishment

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• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

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• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

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• He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

  

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• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

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• I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.

  

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• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

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• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

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• Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
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• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

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• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

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• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Heart
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• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
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• I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
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• If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'

  

  Aaron Levie
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• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
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• Cooking is creating emotion.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Cooking

• We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
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• To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.

  

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• I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

  

  Charles Bukowski
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• Lots of people make fun of me, but the truth is I'm just a man. I like food, I like people, and I like making people happy with food. I have a wife; I have two sons. I love them more than anything. Sure, my TV personality might not be for everyone, but that's okay. I just want to live my life. Please, leave me in peace. I am a man. I have dignity. I am a man.

  

  Guy Fieri
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• Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Society
  • Freedom