Jimmy Carter Quotes
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
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If Wake and Vredenburg were correct, then those of us alive today not only are witnessing one of the rarest events in life’s history, we are also causing it.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.
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It never occurred to me that I was important enough to have some politician go out of his way to silence me. I only found out about it in the '80s by accident - a broadcaster announced they received letters of commendation from the White House for having suppressed my music. My career was so highly impacted in the U.S. it will never recover.
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
