Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler -
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez -
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
Vanessa Marano -
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
Warren Beatty -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
Radhanath Swami -
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
Ian Watson -
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper -
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
Halle Berry -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
Ian Doescher
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul -
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
Zara Larsson -
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde -
So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
Ian Anthony Dale -
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams -
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
Ted Nelson -
The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.
Jay Parini -
I think once somebody is loved, they are somewhere in your heart still loved.
Liz Tuccillo -
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.
David Deida -
When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.
David Foreman -
What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
Orson Scott Card