Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Myself

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Often

• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Dog
  • Wall
  • Voice

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Down

• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Working
  • Modeling

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Kind

• I think I am feeling comfortable in Bollywood more than in Hollywood because I have spent more time here now and I am understanding a lot of things. I am feeling pretty good here. I really don't plan on running off anywhere.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Running
  • Understanding
  • Hollywood

• The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Culture
  • Relationship
  • West

• I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Me
  • Smart

• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Internet
  • California
  • Rights

• You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Up
  • Society
  • Moment

• Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Love
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Different
  • Political

• Reggae goes in and out. It sounds so good, it feels so good and feels so tropical, but the problem is not everybody is Caribbean. Not everyone is going to sound authentic doing it, and sometimes it comes off cheesy when other people do it.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • People
  • Good
  • Cheesy

• The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Space
  • Fall

• For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Up
  • War
  • Cold

• I love fishing and surfing, and I work out every day.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Love
  • Day

• Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do.We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . .] The animals need only be and do.We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • May
  • Free