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

• Him they would not harm, Englishmen being, though infidel, yet the race of past District Officers, judges, doctors, men perhaps, in their time, more helpful than otherwise, powerful but mild.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Men
  • Past

• I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Business
  • Age

• On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds? So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.

  

  Abu Umamah al Bahili
  • Deeds
  • Rewards
  • Servant

• I'm no expert on American politics.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • American

• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

  

  George Eliot
  • Beginning
  • New Life
  • Compunction

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

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Boss
  • Servant
  • Shot