Orson Scott Card Quotes
It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
Orson Scott Card
Quotes to Explore
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'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'
L. Frank Baum
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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
Warren Farrell
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I have thought long and deeply about the post of Foreign Secretary and have decided to offer it to Peter Carrington who – as I am sure you will agree – will do the job superbly.
Margaret Thatcher
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The fool hath said … The fool hath said And we, who deemed him wise, We, who believed that Thou wast dead, How should we seek Thine eyes?How should we seek to Thee for power, Who scorned Thee yesterday? How should we kneel in this dread hour? Lord, teach us how to pray.
Alfred Noyes
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There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.
Matt Lauer
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HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
Charles Simonyi
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When I read 'Rocky V,' it was a terrific story, a great script. Rocky died at the end. He has this devastating fight with Tommy Gunn, ends up in an ambulance with his head in Adrian's lap, and by the time they get to the hospital, he's dead.
John G. Avildsen
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It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Jamaican-Americans - they feel American. It's a huge success story.
Amy Chua
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When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.
Mark Helprin
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I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin-a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.
Vanessa Carlton
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
Omar Bongo
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
Orson Scott Card
