Jimmy Carter Quotes
I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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We should have an inclusive growth model in India. Agro-interest is also as important as industrial interest.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
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An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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Sports saved my life.
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Simplify always - do not complicate.
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When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
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The mob is the mother of tyrants.
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I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.
