Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.
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Users socialize to figure out what they're going to do on the weekend. They use MySpace to discover new music and post events. Musicians upload their music. People use it for entertainment purposes or to sell goods in the classified area. MySpace makes what they do in the offline world a) more efficient or b) more interesting.
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My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.
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Cosmology is the elder sister of cosmogony.
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'Aye. Like knows like, sister'
