Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old.
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So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
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The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
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I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
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I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.
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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
