Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.
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I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.
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Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
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Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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I never see how meaty my role is. If I like the script in its entirety, the director, or if my co-star is someone I greatly admire, I sign up. You learn so much being part of a great team.
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We are not generally included in that narrative - people of color - definitely, women of color don't normally fit that narrative that has been built around the whole image and the whole story of the Silicon Valley.
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I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.
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I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.
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Football's extremely important to me. iIt's my passion.
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Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
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To me, for politicians to claim that we have an answer to every problem is silly. When you listen to some politicians reeling off their prepared answers, you almost fall for it. They’re all experts. But nothing ever happens.
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I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.
