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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Being evil is easy.
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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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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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I do this thing where I think I'm real sick but I won't go to the doctor to find out about it cause they make you stay real still in a real small space as they chart up your insides and put them on display. They'd see all of it, all of me, all of it; All the good that won't come out of me...
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I own the whole world, and folks haven’t been keeping up too well on the payments.
