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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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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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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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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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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.
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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.
