Orson Scott Card Quotes
You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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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 -
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.
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You have to temporarily be the character in order to understand him. It's sort of what they used to call 'shape-shifting.'
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I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.
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But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
