Orson Scott Card Quotes
'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'
Quotes to Explore
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I really, really don't think that, outside of maybe some pink wigs, [that] there's anything that separates me from every other woman in America.
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I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.
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The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'
