Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.Ursula K. Le Guin
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
Vanilla Ice -
We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
Damon Lindelof -
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff -
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Zainab Salbi -
People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
Pablo Sandoval -
You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
Harold Ramis
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
Orson Welles -
Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
Gary Allan -
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
Zach Roerig -
I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
Jack Dee -
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
Edgar Cayce -
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Wade Boggs
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I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.
Maggie Stiefvater -
The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
Dan Wheldon -
I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
Urs Fischer -
Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.
Ville Valo HIM -
As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
Victoria Pendleton -
SOLOSHOT is such a brilliant idea and an athlete's dream. It has given me the ability to film myself training without anyone's help - it's perfect because I can go to the beach, set up my SOLOSHOT, and not have to rely on anyone to stand there and film me from the beach for hours.
Maika Monroe
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What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.
Steve Jobs -
She smiled. 'I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?''I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.'
Joe Haldeman -
Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company.
Napoleon Hill -
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
Jim McDermott -
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of 1838-1839. Although we know about the terrible human suffering of our native people and the members of other tribes during the removal, we rarely hear of those black people who also suffered.
Wilma Mankiller -
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
Ursula K. Le Guin