Orson Scott Card Quotes
I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Beyond brand, culture can help drive your product itself by creating the conditions for the idea generation that is and will continue to be the lifeblood of any company.
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I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'
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I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.
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If there's amnesty leading to citizenship, I'm going to vote against it again.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
