Orson Scott Card Quotes
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
Yoko Ono -
Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
FKA twigs -
I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Women are sacred.
Vin Diesel -
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
Wendell Willkie
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I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
Katee Sackhoff -
I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
Ed Westwick -
I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
Sadie Jones -
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
M.I.A. -
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
Salman Rushdie -
I installed anti-rust roofing into homes in Cairns. I packed boxes at Baby Barn. I was even a Manny! Mate, I know more about braiding hair and My Little Pony than most men, I can tell ya.
Sam Worthington
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.
Wendell Berry -
If Benton had had an administration building with pillars it could have carved over the pillars: Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you guilty.
Randall Jarrell -
Christina Stead has a Chinese say, 'Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us'-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
Randall Jarrell -
Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.
Lucretius -
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Maria Montessori
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The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.
George Osborne -
We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.
Oswald Chambers -
When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
Mike Rutherford Genesis -
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Jim Sensenbrenner -
You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.
Orson Scott Card