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've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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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 didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.
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There's always fear. Always fear. Anyone who says they are not afraid is lying to you. Because this can all change tomorrow.
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Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.
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His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
