Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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I never starved myself.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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I would love to go to film school.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.
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Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action.
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
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When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.
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The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.
