Orson Scott Card Quotes
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
