Jimmy Carter Quotes
In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.
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Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
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In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.
