Jimmy Carter Quotes
Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.
Quotes to Explore
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
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Quite often ... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation ... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate.
