Jimmy Carter Quotes
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.
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My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me with my make up and hair, and just be there to support me in whatever I do. She always makes sure that no matter what, I'm happy in what I'm doing.
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Militat omnis amans
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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Most men have nothing in their heads but their physical needs; put them on a desert island with nothing to occupy their minds and they would go insane. They lack real motive. The curse of civilization is boredom.
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So I go back and forth foreverAll my thoughts they come in pairsOh I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't,I'm not surprised but I never feel quite prepared
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I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.
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Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
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There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
