Jimmy Carter Quotes
America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.
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For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
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I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
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I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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I wanted James Carville to never die. I wanted Dylan, the poet, to not die. I wanted to put these people in a place where they would be inviolate. It wasn't enough to have a still life of them. I wanted to surround them with the lives they led.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
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If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
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I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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Copernicus stuck very closely to the facts, but in Kepler I invented freely, and it's a much better book because of that.
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America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.
