Jimmy Carter Quotes
Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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It's insensitive, inappropriate language, and it's conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.
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If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.
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Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
