Lillian Gordy Carter Quotes
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I remember when the family album came out, people would just knock on our door because they thought they knew us, and that, of course, is one of the great hazards.
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Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
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Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
