Orson Scott Card Quotes
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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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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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.
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It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat.
