Orson Scott Card Quotes
It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I would like to direct.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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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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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I have a wandering eye and a lazy eye so they cancel each other out. It's a push.
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If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
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Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
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People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
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We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
