Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Comfortable
  • Uncertainty

• I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Proud
  • Youth
  • Walk

• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • House
  • Crime
  • White

• When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Win
  • Mistakes
  • Lose

• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

  

  Quintilian
  • Reading
  • Deep
  • Minds

• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Run

• We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Short

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Team
  • End
  • Fight

• I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Always
  • Never
  • Born

• I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Never
  • Beach
  • Days

• When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • You
  • Very
  • Audition

• I grew up in the church.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Church
  • Grew

• It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Funny
  • Change
  • Day

• People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Feel
  • Frightened

• To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Father
  • Film
  • Something

• I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Business

• While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Different
  • Women
  • May

• He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Taken
  • Dancer
  • Twelve

• Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • Happiness
  • Choice

• After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

  

  Maureen O'Hara

• Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Live

• Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

  

  George Osborne
  • World

• It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin