Orson Scott Card Quotes
I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
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I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.
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Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
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I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
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I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.
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Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.
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You never know what your opportunities are going to be.
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It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
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I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
