Orson Scott Card Quotes

I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

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• Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Popular
  • Share
  • Bear

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Creativity
  • See
  • Move

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
  • Sense
  • Walk

• I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Way
  • Me
  • Better

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Service

• I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Good
  • Luck

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • World
  • Women
  • True

• I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Different
  • Challenge

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Music
  • Color

• A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Enemy
  • Darkness
  • Prince

• I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature. I remember that in arguing with Piet Mondrian in Paris, 1920's, he opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion. I do not think that nature is in natural opposition to art. Art's origins are natural.

  

  Jean Arp
  • Art
  • Remember
  • Nature

• In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental skills and habits, but ultimately you learn through on-the-job training.

  

  Kathleen Flinn
  • School
  • Job
  • Training

• You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

  

  Zachary Alexander Bagans
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Powerful

• Keep in mind, our demographics of our state, how it breaks down in terms of political affiliation: over half the people in this state chose not to align themselves with any party at all.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • People
  • Mind
  • Political

• I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Dying