Orson Scott Card Quotes
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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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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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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Lajja is a humanist appeal so that unpleasant things don’t happen any more. So that people can manage to coexist in mutual respect and to help religion truly embrace humanity.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.
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Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.
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The first is last, and the last is first.
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Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.