Jimmy Carter Quotes
God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
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Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.
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For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.
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Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
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A new report just came out that says President Obama has mentioned Jesus Christ in more speeches than President Bush did. Can you believe that? Still, neither has used the phrase 'Oh God, oh God,' more than President Clinton.
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A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.
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Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.
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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
