Jimmy Carter Quotes
It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
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You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
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I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!
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A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.
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It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.
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I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
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My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
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Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
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Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.
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It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.
