Orson Scott Card Quotes
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
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I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?
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'At least we can put a little sense into life.''I don’t know whether we do or whether we find what was always there,' he replied. 'Nor do I care greatly. To me, the important thing is that the purpose-order, beauty, spirit, whatever you want to call it-does exist.'
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Didacticism is the death of art.
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I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.
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He looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
