Orson Scott Card Quotes
To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.
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Every morning when I wake up, I listen to 'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC.
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I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.
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France is an old country that needs to wake up.
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We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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To say what's in their hearts, regardless of shame. It doesn't change what they feel, what they want. It just helps... loosen them up.
