Jimmy Carter Quotes
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.
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All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.
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The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
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One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.
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My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.
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The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
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Unmarried women in their forties, with false teeth and tousled hair, aren't usually held in the highest esteem by our society. The feeling seemed to be that if I could be a success then anyone could!
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
