Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
Sam Smith -
I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
Imran Amed -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
I was an English major in college!
Maggie Siff -
I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
Mahesh Babu
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
Obiageli Ezekwesili -
Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
Pankaj Mishra -
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
Dan Harmon -
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen -
I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
Frances McDormand
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
Gail Sheehy -
The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
Natalie Massenet -
ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
Hamza Yusuf -
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch -
I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
Edan Lepucki -
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken
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A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
Lin Yutang -
The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
Asghar Farhadi -
Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.
Quentin Crisp -
We've found that the more niche you are, the better off you are.
Jenny Packham -
To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.
Ursula K. Le Guin