Jimmy Carter Quotes
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.
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All the rest of the world uses the word 'electricity.' They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
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What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
