Orson Scott Card Quotes
Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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Necessity has no law.
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Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!
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Lo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezzafesse creando, e a la sua bontatepiù conformato, e quel ch'e' più apprezza,fu de la volontà la libertate;di che le creature intelligenti,e tutte e sole, fuore e son dotate.
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One of the more surreal days I've ever had in the recording studio was Martin Fry teaching Hugh Grant his old dance moves. Showing him how to do the hair-flip and the point, and all these sort of trademark moves of his.
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I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.
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Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.
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Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.
