Orson Scott Card Quotes
I wanted your songs.You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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I always feel that until you take your last breath, you're always growing.
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The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.
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There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.
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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.
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Ask the locals. They can point you in the direction of the area's shopping district where you'll be sure to find something different and unique that pleases you.
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Sultan Aladdin… had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry… their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.
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Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
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I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
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I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'
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When it applies to the Olympics and making a decision, I have to claim Australia as my country.
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A lot of the messed-up stuff that men inflict on women is kind of a symptom of the messed-up stuff that they should be dealing with themselves.
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I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.
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Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation.
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Personally, I like sex and I don't care what a man thinks of me as long as I get what I want from him -- which is usually sex.
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oh well, is it hurting anyone? Because if its not and you’ve been given it, I’d as soon stop calling it a thing and start referring to it as a gift.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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I wanted your songs.You wanted my songs more than you wanted my happiness. So you took my happiness, and stole my songs.
