Orson Scott Card Quotes
Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
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I'm basically all titanium.
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The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
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All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
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I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.
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Sunday morning, he decided, is designed to let sinners have a sample of the first day of eternity in hell.
