Orson Scott Card Quotes

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Orson Scott Card

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

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• I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

  

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• Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.

  

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• I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.

  

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• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

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• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

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• I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

  

  Sally Field
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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

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• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

  

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• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

  

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• Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'

  

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• The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
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• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

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• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

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• I can't control what a reader takes from a story.

  

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• Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

  

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• My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.

  

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• The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Control
  • Choice