Orson Scott Card Quotes
I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
Orson Scott Card
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
Uday Kiran
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Baruch Spinoza
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.
Dan Simmons
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
Patrick Rothfuss
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Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul Vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working icon, And by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.
Anna Akhmatova
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I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?
Christian Louboutin
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Paul Wellstone
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My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.
Marvin Sapp
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The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
Tim Ferriss
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
Orson Scott Card