Orson Scott Card Quotes
People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.
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I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
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People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.