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You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Appreciate Get Got Just
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
Facts Hell Need Stories
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The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Between Heroes Phone Super
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I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

Actor Everybody Get Hang
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I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.

Always Because Forward Great
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I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

About Because Close Educated
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There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Able Being Capable Democratic
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We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

Achieved Breathed Civil Civil Rights
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I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

About Close Drift Expert
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If you want to fly, you have to give up the negativity that weighs you down. Give wings to the greatness within you. Soar!

Fly Give up Wings Greatness
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If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.
Admire Certainly Francis Go
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Success is a meaningless word without failure. I have failed many times, but in every wrong turn, every misstep, there are important lessons. Embrace them.

Success Meaningless word Failure
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I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Able Active Carter Center
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My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.

Both Breast Cancer Brother Cancer
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I think politicians really go with the tide.

Go I Think Politicians Really
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I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Against Brain Cancer Did
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There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

Always Bed Been Believed
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There will be obstacles. There will be doubters, there will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits. This is just a reminder that you can do anything you set your mind to.

Obstacles Doubters Mistakes Hard work
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Over the years, I’ve realized that the people you surround yourself with go a long way in affecting your achievements.

Realized People Surround Affecting
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A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

Because Bring Disagree Equality
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Because Beliefs Christian Christianity
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Both Challenge Cold Cold War
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The biggest issue with money is we don’t understand how it works, so no matter how much we make, we can’t seem to get to the place called financial freedom.

Biggest issue Money Understand No matter
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Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

About All My Life Also Because
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Don’t be afraid of failure as long as you are doing everything within your power to succeed. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve as our personal growth.

Afraid Failure Power Succeed
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I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

About Bible Book Carter
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No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Anything Away Ever Gets
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To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Master New New Technology Play
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Donald Trump would have been worse than Iddi Amin if he had been a President in a country without strong systems and institutions.

Donald Trump Iddi Amin President Country
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

Worst thing Nobody laughs Deal Factory
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

Children Come Curriculum Early
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Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Working hard Very important Get anywhere
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Arts Been Every Go
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated .

Making Film Sieve Element
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A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Special effect Telling story Pretty boring
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Child Discouraged Every God
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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Football games Stadium attendance Movie
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Child Dismiss First First Time
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I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.

Follower Silent movies Visual medium
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Burden Laugh Myself Self
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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Never interested Powerful Famous Film school
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
Work Lord Temptation Keep us
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God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

God Pleased continually Mode Dealing
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I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Desire Many things Heart filled Love
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If we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

Hold fast Confidence Faith Strengthened
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness

Guard well Treasure Kindness Hesitation
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