Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Going was easy. Keep on going was hard.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Vote
  • Where
  • Percent

• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• I like the effect drink has on me.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Me
  • Like
  • Drink

• A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Security
  • More
  • Surveillance

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Christian
  • Idea
  • Go

• I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

  

  Beck
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Boring

• Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Know
  • Me
  • Trust

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Place
  • Take
  • Exhibitions

• Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Live
  • Remember

• I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Innovation

• I’m ambivalent. I like Gekko, which is partly why Michael Douglas did so well…. Gekko is despicable but kinda fun too.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Why
  • Fun

• It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• «The decisions are made in the moment they are made.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Imagination

• Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

  

  Jody Watley Shalamar
  • Good
  • Song
  • Responsibility

• We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Drug

• Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?

  

  Ernest Van den Haag
  • History
  • Population
  • Educated

• Turkey is trying to fight with ISIS in al-Bab, in Syria, in Iraq, and our allies who have been with ISIS are not providing as much support and intelligence on this front. We have a saying Turkish. If your neighbour's house is on fire and you don't help them put it out, that fire will eventually burn your own home.

  

  Egemen Bağış
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• Going was easy. Keep on going was hard.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin