Orson Scott Card Quotes
Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
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I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.
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I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down, I'll take a book with children's pictures and look at it and it will just lift me up. Being around children is magic.
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It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.
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Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.
