Orson Scott Card Quotes
'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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The best kind of television should mess with your head.
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Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))
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Some people kind of are afraid of me.
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Y si llegaras a hombre, ¿a qué más podrías llegar?
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On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
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'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'
