Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.Ursula K. Le Guin
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
Vicente del Bosque -
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
Sam Neill -
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector -
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
Lake Bell -
That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
Ted Demme -
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
Raghuram Rajan -
'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
Caitlin Rose -
I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
Natasha Bedingfield -
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
Zubin Mehta -
Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
Maggie Siff -
The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
Takeru Kobayashi
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
Mandy Patinkin -
My father is my inspiration.
Mahesh Babu -
I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.
Taylor Swift -
I can’t do it, Joachim. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. A long leash is still a leash. And Coransee will still be at the other end of it, holding on.
Octavia E. Butler -
Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
It was under Catholic Feudalism that they were first united; a union for which their incorporation into the Roman empire had prepared them, and which was finally organized by the incomparable genius of Charlemagne.
Auguste Comte
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
Ben Harper -
It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.
Kabir Sehgal -
I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday.
Stuart Immonen -
Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
Ursula K. Le Guin