Jimmy Carter Quotes
There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
Jimmy Carter
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
Calvin Johnson
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
Edgar Ramirez
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I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
Flume
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.
Randy Pausch
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
Yoko Ono
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When you are on the floor, there's no better feeling than when your teammates are into the game on the bench and are cheering for you and vice versa. When you come out of the game, you are cheering for those guys that are on the floor.
Jason Kidd
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We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.
Ban Ki-moon
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In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.
Samina Baig
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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.
Hannah Arendt
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There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
Jimmy Carter