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?
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
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Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.
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I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
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Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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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?
