Orson Scott Card Quotes
You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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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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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I'm not going to lie: I'm a competitive player. I think there's no point playing football if you're not competitive and you don't want to win games.
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I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.
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It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
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Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
