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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state (something that is by no means incompatible with honest barbarity), but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
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Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
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More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
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Alas, time and head injuries are stealing all my memories.
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The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
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I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
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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.
