Jimmy Carter Quotes
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the same carbon dioxide that is the primary cause of global warming, hence the nickname 'the other carbon problem.' As they do so, the oceans become more acidic with terrible consequences.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
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Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.
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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.
