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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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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When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
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The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
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Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.
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He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail.
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I always thought of the waterfront as a quiet area, but the folk festival really changes that. They renovate the waterfront every year. It just keeps getting nicer.
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The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts
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Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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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.
