Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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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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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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
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I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.
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I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.
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I don't believe any artist who says, 'I had to do that because DJs will tell me I can't play that music. I will lose my job.' Well, lose the job and create a new job. If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
