Orson Scott Card Quotes
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I love cooking and baking.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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It takes longevity to earn respect.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.
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The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
