Orson Scott Card Quotes
Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.
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Verily learned to live with constant deception, hiding what he was and what he saw and what he felt and what he did from everyone around him. It was only natural that he should be drawn to the study of law.
