Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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My mouth ain't no prayer book.
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In pageants, you are evaluated from head to toe and it's obviously all about looks, and as vain as that is, they can also bring you lots of opportunities to do amazing things.
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.
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Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.
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I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.
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America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.
