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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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
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I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.
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When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
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Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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'The woman is the subtlest beast in the garden,' said Papa Moose, 'now that snakes can’t talk.'
