Jimmy Carter Quotes
Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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I'm a firm believer that your lifestyle plays a key role in the state of your complexion.
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I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
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Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
