Jimmy Carter Quotes
I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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I don't party, I don't get drunk and I don't have affairs. So all my passion goes into my work.
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
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Callas? She was pure electricity.
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
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I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
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The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.
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The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.
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Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
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I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.
