Orson Scott Card Quotes
Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.Orson Scott Card
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
Karen Hughes -
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
Jack Markell -
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold -
We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
Edan Lepucki -
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.'
Patrick Carman -
I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones -
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash -
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
Jack Kemp
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
Edmund White -
I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
Lara Stone -
People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
Cameron Crowe -
We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
Oscar Isaac -
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
Candace Camp -
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
Gary Lineker -
'All right, Marius-I get the message. In fact I intercepted it, parsed it, filtered it, decrypted it with the appropriate onetime pad and wrote a fucking two-hundred-page report on it. Satisfied?''I’m never satisfied, Mishenka. It just isn’t in my nature.'
Alastair Reynolds -
Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
Orson Scott Card