Orson Scott Card Quotes
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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I'm a big fan of the rule of law.
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You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.
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Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.
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I absolutely adore Agatha Christie; so much so that when I received a kitten for my Christmas present, I called her Agatha, and I already have a cat called Hercule!
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
