Jimmy Carter Quotes

I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.

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• They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Friend
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• Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Expression
  • Flowers
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• I just want to not be me.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Want

• All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

  

  Gary W. Keller
  • Focus
  • Result
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• I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

  

  Kat Cole
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• You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish.

  

  Kat Von D
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  • Flourish
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• If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
  • Freedom
  • Makeup
  • Characters

• Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Real
  • Enemy
  • Fundamentalism

• If you have a dream, this is your chance. We don't always have to play it safe because people might think you're weird.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• Nothing is to wonderful to be true.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • True
  • Nothing
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• It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Important
  • Freedom
  • Violence

• I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Believers
  • Fundamentalism
  • Authoritarian males