Jimmy Carter Quotes
I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
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I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.
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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.
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I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.
