Orson Scott Card Quotes
'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'Orson Scott Card
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
Dakota Goyo -
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
Taylor Swift -
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
Calvin Klein -
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
Patrick Duffy -
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
Patrick Lencioni -
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett -
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
Karl Rove -
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields -
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena -
There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
Sam Jaeger -
If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Barack Obama -
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
Ban Ki-moon -
Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.
Brad Goreski -
If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.
Loudon Wainwright III -
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
John Calvin -
'Don’t you think it’s ironic that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do,' said Verily, 'and yet so many people have gone to so much trouble to prevent you from doing it?'
Orson Scott Card