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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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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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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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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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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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously. This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
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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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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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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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It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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If you can allow yourself to do more good with your creativity by being successful, then that's a great thing.
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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.
