Orson Scott Card Quotes
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I could read music and sing all the right notes at the right time. And over time, I literally found my voice, found a way to make sound.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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Tonight's the night. It's gonna be alright.
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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
