Jimmy Carter Quotes
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.
Quotes to Explore
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.
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I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
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It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.
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When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
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An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.
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As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.
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Love yourself like your life depends on it, because it does.
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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.
