#lit

There's no reason for me to go into a big dissertation about why I'm not getting the calls. The refs have to do their jobs as well. I even mentioned it in training camp to the refs when we had our little meeting. ↗

— Michael Vick

#big #calls #camp #dissertation #even

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#back #before #being #civilized #easy

There is no normality in life. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#normality

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#appeals #away #chance #character #corpse

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #day #dollar #globalization #illiterate

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#art #boundaries #common #common language #language

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#always #apply #believe #between #church

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#gay #human #invention #reality #western

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. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#bring #disagree #equality #fundamentalist #herself

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#between #built #christian #christianity #expense