Orson Scott Card Quotes
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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Ivanka Trump's declared mission to 'empower women who work' is a welcome element in the Trump administration. As a woman with a desk in the White House and the founder of an international corporation, she is certainly in a position to improve the wages, safety, and quality of life of working women around the world.
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The quality of life is determined by its activities.
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When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.
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I don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
