Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
Adam Davidson -
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
Mal Peet -
I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
Gabriel Basso -
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Zubin Mehta
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
Gabriella Wilde -
I'm an emotional guy.
J. R. Martinez -
In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
Edd Byrnes -
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar -
I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
Patricia Cornwell -
I don't want to get fat.
Sammy Sosa
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
Caitlin Doughty -
My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
K. D. Lang -
I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.
Madeleine Peyroux -
You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
Canelo Alvarez -
They're all deserting me. I've been too kind. Spare the rod and spoil the fun. Oh, for the glands of a Bismarck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.
Ovid
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When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don't run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.
Alexandra Daddario -
I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.
Alison Sweeney -
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
Nigel Kneale -
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
William James -
Manipulated, one manipulates others.
Ursula K. Le Guin