Jimmy Carter Quotes
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.
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I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.
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The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.
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I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
