Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
Ireland Baldwin -
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Felix Frankfurter -
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus -
When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
L. Ron Hubbard -
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris -
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
Yael Stone -
I'm the blackest villain of all time.
Ian McDiarmid -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Patrick Leahy -
I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
Laura Vandervoort -
I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
Halsey
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin -
In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
Olivia Colman -
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
J. G. Ballard -
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
Sam Shepard -
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
Natalia Makarova -
It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
Rachel Nichols -
With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
Orson Welles -
It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
Larenz Tate -
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin