Orson Scott Card Quotes
How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
