Orson Scott Card Quotes
'Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?''Few measure up to my standards, but most try.'
Quotes to Explore
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
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The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action.
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'Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?''Few measure up to my standards, but most try.'
