"America has no functioning democracy at this moment."

-- Jimmy Carter

#America Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Moments Quotes

“When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.”
“I think I have been able to eliminate the idea of a third person: the Intruding Photographer.”
“We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.”
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
“Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.”
“Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.”
“The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.”
“Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.”

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