Jimmy Carter Quotes
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
Quotes to Explore
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We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
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I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
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Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
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Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
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Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.
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I row after health like a waterman.
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I’m I really working on the right thing, or once I put the solution in place I’m I going to get the benefit out of it, or is this masking some other underlying thing, whether it’s personal or what have you. I mean, I always get to that too because that’s the subtlety of problem selection.
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It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.
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I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.
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I'm a big fan of Frank Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
