Jimmy Carter Quotes

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

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• Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Art
  • Criticism

• It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Comedy
  • Write
  • Sketch

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Think
  • Know
  • Best

• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Country
  • Yes

• Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.

  

  Kate Williams
  • American
  • English
  • Stock

• I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic.

  

  Larry Wall

• Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Improvement

• It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• People are afraid of everything.

  

  Jean-Francois Cope
  • People

• I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.

  

  Katie Taylor

• Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.

  

  Arthur C. Brooks
  • Life
  • Free

• For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • Everyday

• I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Mom

• Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Good
  • Mistake
  • Photography

• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Love

• Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Wisdom
  • Clarity
  • Breeze

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

  

  Corazon Aquino
  • History

• I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Boss
  • Servant
  • Shot