Jimmy Carter Quotes
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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Southern people are raised with a work ethic. My son is 5 years old and does chores. My mom was a dance teacher, and the training and discipline it takes to be a dancer I've carried with me in Hollywood.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I think one of the core ideas in America has always been conversation and being able to question our systems of government, and being able to dictate our own communities and how we want this country to work. And I feel like we're losing part of that because of the way that even our current political campaign is centered more around celebrity than anything else, and so we're kind of losing conversation. We're still having conversations, but they seem to be more about like Donald Trump's hair and like memes of his face more than anything else.
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We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.
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I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.
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America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.
