Orson Scott Card Quotes
Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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I had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
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When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.
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I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
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Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
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Any individual entity that pretends to understand the rules that guide this space is under an illusion.
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Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.
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I try to make pictures I would want to see.
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Some Shi'ites are asking that Islam be the only source of laws, which means turning Iraq into an Islamic regime, and that is unacceptable. We accept that the religion of Iraq is Islam, and we must respect Islam and the Islamic identity of Iraqi people. But we think Islam should only be one source of the Iraqi laws.
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
