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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 21, 1929

Topics

Sleep Action Information Grows

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

Change Yourself Sorry Forward You

My video game character is a bit better looking than me, actually. I don't think he has to worry about his hair getting messed up.

Character Me Hair Looking Game Up

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Lorene Scafaria

Live People Think You Call Only

I did 'Batman v Superman' for one or two days.

Superman Two Days Batman Did

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Jonathan Zittrain

Fear Technology Path Law Help

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

Jonny Lee Miller

People Want My Own Talk Never Own

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!

Douglas Fairbanks

Water Laughter Spring Action Magic

The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.

Great New York Child Feet Year New

It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.

Work Ethics People World Better You

The first duty of love is to listen.

Love Love Is Duty Listen First

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

Life Daughter Light Me Doing Enough

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

Great Society Retirement Pressure

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