Jimmy Carter Quotes
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I will run against anybody.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
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When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
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I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.
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I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
