Orson Scott Card Quotes
'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
Quotes to Explore
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
