Orson Scott Card Quotes
How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
Orson Scott Card
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
Randy Pausch
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I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
Gary Cohn
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti
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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
Edoardo Ponti
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We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.
Patrick Whitesell
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I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.
Patricia MacLachlan
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(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): 'Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations.'
Kamisese Mara
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By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.
Warren Farrell
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It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing-in addition to caring for man’s well-being-they were providing rights for themselves.
Allan Bloom
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
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My music is not modern, it is merely badly played
Arnold Schoenberg
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If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.
Chris Bohjalian
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For this time of year, we are way above the five-year norm for storage. We are in really good shape.
Michael Rose
Black Uhuru
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
Alain Badiou
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
Isaac Newton
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How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?
Orson Scott Card
