Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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I have this strange notion that clothes should be fun.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.
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Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.
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We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
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When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
