Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.
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The more time you can spend in sevens, the better. Time is invaluable; there's no substitute for that.
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Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
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Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.
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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
