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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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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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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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I keep my political views to myself.
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I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.
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Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world, at a cost of 2.5 per cent of what we spend on British children.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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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.
