Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Black

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Actor
  • Critics
  • Golfer

• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Business
  • You
  • Trust

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • You
  • Find
  • Working

• If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Money
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Trouble

• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Thing
  • Main Thing

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Beauty

• When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Petty
  • Awards

• 'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Three

• My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Father
  • Soul
  • Small

• Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Different
  • Today

• You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Believe
  • Game
  • You

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Yourself
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