Orson Scott Card Quotes
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
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Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
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America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.
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I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.
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During the 2008 campaign, Hillary Clinton ran a blunt television ad asking whether Barack Obama could handle a foreign policy crisis.
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Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.
