Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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Sometimes I catch myself if I'm shopping, and I'm like, 'I want to hide my thighs and my arms.' And then I kind of take a minute where I'm like, 'No, that's not really being kind to yourself. Maybe learn to embrace things that we're taught as women not to like.'
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My hair turned gray when I was 24.
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I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
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You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
