E. S. Carter Quotes

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.

I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

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.

I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.

My dentist is actually a highly technical specialist, constantly experimenting with the latest dental research. The equipment he has makes my old dentist look prehistoric.

I don't know how anyone can work on people's mouths all day long. That disgusts me. I'd rather work on the other end than work on mouths.

I kind of have a phobia for the dentist's office.

I'm not sure cavemen had plumbers. They probably just used a hole.

Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.

If I'm a criminal, and I'm confronted with a 7-foot tall cop and an albino cop, I'm gonna be so lost, I'm spilling my guts.

About age 30 most women think about having children, most men think about dating them.

In L.A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

We must learn not to weep and to love what we have left.

I'm an adventurer and I enjoy all types of things, and eating is a part of that. It's just too bad we have to watch what we eat.

I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they're part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they're going to enjoy.

You want to see women your own age in films.

I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.

Everybody has secrets and some are deeper and darker than others. I think if we peered within the psyche of another we would be all of those things and so very much more.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.

Your social platform will become the motherboard of your business.

The number one use case for social media among our customers is around innovation - innovating with employees and with customers. For most businesses this is going to deliver the highest ROI.

We embed social media inside our processes. Let's look at our processes and see how we can enhance them with social.

Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.

If all you did to improve your commercial presence was to train your sales people on the importance of influencers ... how much more effective could they be?

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

The best drink I've ever had was a mojito in St. Barts at Nikki Beach. That drink changed my life.

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

I think of my novels as entertainments.