Orson Scott Card Quotes

La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

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• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

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• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

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• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

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• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

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• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  

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• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  

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• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

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• Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

  

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• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

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• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

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• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  

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• Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

  

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• Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

  

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• It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

  

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• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

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• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

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• I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

  

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• I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors.

  

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• What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.

  

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• Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

  

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• I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

  

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• La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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