Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.
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How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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India had entertained throughout its history a world vision. Our sages and seers had thought in terms of the happiness of the whole of humanity. And Jawaharlal Nehru had designed a foreign policy for India with a world outlook. We have a role to play in the world and a message to give to the world. We can do that effectively only if we are united and strong and in peace and friendship with our neighbours.
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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
