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 like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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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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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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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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I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
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Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
