Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Writers are so important.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.
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Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
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What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
