Orson Scott Card Quotes
I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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I like wearing good clothes. Some of my friends who are into making clothes told me since I was already playing with my own brand of bat sticker, I should make a foray in fashion. The idea has worked very well.
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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
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No amount of money today could possibly give me the thrill that first $400 check gave me. My first story was entitled, 'Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars.' Metcalf changed it to 'Under the Moons of Mars.' It was later published in book form as A Princess of Mars.
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I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.
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I acted like a human male. When I act like a human male it doesn't make me less human, it just makes me less female.
