Orson Scott Card Quotes
They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'
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Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.
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I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.
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Show gratitude.
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... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
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Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
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The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'
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They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.
