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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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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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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The most eloquent seems to stutter.
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
