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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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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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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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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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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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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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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Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.
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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
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I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
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For me, you've got to start from within. The things you eat directly affect the way you feel and the way you move.
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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.
