Orson Scott Card Quotes
My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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We made 'Wretched and Divine,' and as much as I love it, it's a pretty sparkly record - it's a record that could be done as a play because it's very theatrical with no grit.
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When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and fans around the world are recognizing that.
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It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
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My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there’s not much deserving about the matter.
