Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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My life is better with every year of living it.
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I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
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Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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We're just like a regular family.
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Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
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Affluence means influence.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.
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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
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Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.
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Existence is its own justification, need is right.
