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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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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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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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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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.
