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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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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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
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It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
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Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.
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To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.
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The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.
