Jimmy Carter Quotes
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
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We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
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There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.
