Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.Ursula K. Le Guin
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
Kate Micucci -
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Edith Evans -
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken -
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
Tariq Ramadan -
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke -
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
Lance Armstrong
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens -
I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
Cameron Crowe -
I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
Carl Karcher -
I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
Eckhart Tolle -
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
Salman Rushdie
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
Karen Bender -
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. Forster -
With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
Daniel Bryan -
I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.
Najib Razak -
I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
Jack Klugman -
From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
Halldor Laxness
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum -
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
Pamela Dean -
We really think we have a good set of strategies, ... feel Dan is absolutely the best person to become Kodak's next CEO.
George Fisher Cannibal Corpse -
I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.
Ursula K. Le Guin