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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I got no hate in 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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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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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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When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
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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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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-ruin or what credit-default swaps are. They may not even know what A.I.G. stands for. But Americans do make the connection between their fears about their own jobs and their broad understanding of the A.I.G. debacle.
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When one must, one can.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
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I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.
