Jimmy Carter Quotes
I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
Quotes to Explore
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
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As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.
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I hate musicals. There, I said it.
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A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
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In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?
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All I do is scream your name.
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There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
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How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working.
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You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
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I have always enjoyed outlaw films such as 'Smokey and the Bandit.'
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There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.
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The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.
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If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.
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A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.
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I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
