Orson Scott Card Quotes
I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
Quotes to Explore
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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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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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
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I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.
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There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
