Jimmy Carter Quotes
Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
Quotes to Explore
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
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Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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The bigger the show, the weirder it is.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.
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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
