Jimmy Carter Quotes

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

Jimmy Carter

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• Lawyers
• Courts
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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
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  • Real
  • House

• I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Bad
  • Never
  • Meetings

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
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• You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

  

  Barack Obama
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• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
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• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

  

  Gary Player
  • Human
  • More
  • Lived

• I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Time
  • Play
  • Year

• Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis

• What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Different
  • May
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• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• I'd never heard anything like it before. It was like banshee music. This absolutely otherworldly voice, singing about a book, and as a bookish kid, I was always fascinated by anything, any music that seems to be about or inspired by books.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Music
  • Book
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• All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Fear
  • Powerful

• My father Lloyd Bridges worked on a TV show called 'Sea Hunt.' He impressed upon me as a child the importance of taking care of the ocean and working together to do our part to reduce human pollution.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Together
  • Father
  • Sea

• I don't want to build on someone else's legacy. I wanted to establish my own thing.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Legacy

• I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Time
  • Why
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• I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Health
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Love
  • Moments
  • Spiritual

• Death cannot kill what never dies.

  

  William Penn
  • Death

• The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Justice
  • Doctrine
  • Poison

• In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Justice
  • Judge
  • Lawyers