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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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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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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Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
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中醫不過是一種有意的或無意的騙子。
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We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.
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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
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Engvall is in the park flying a kite with his son.
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.
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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.
