Orson Scott Card Quotes
Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.
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Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
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Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
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Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.
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The goal was just to finish the movie and get it out in a few theaters. To think that decades later people would still be thinking and talking about it, I could have never imagined.
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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
