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 think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.
Darren Aronofsky
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Nobody goes right to work. You might get there on time, but, screw the company, those first twenty minute belong to you, right? It's not an attitude in line with the American Spirit, but there it is: we all screw around first. 'I just got here, man, you kiddin' me?' Really. You never see a memo that says 9:01.
George Carlin
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I try to go out, check out the town, and have a good time. It's a life experience: not everyone gets the chance to see the world and play golf, do the thing you love while travelling.
Peter Uihlein
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To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
Cornel West
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I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
Chuck Feeney
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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