Jimmy Carter Quotes

My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

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• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Words
  • Poetry

• If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• 'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food

• I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worth

• Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

  

  Darren Criss
  • High
  • Fashion

• Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life

• When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

  

  Peggy Johnson
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  • Good
  • Silly

• When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Writing

• I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. I think it was good for me to get away after a full season... In those days, I don't think anyone ever got too complacent.

  

  Bobby Doerr
  • Good
  • Work
  • Winter

• The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Perfect

• The business of horror movies goes up and down, and people are always like, 'It's working,' 'It's not working,' but generally, I think if you make a good movie that's scary, people will come.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • School
  • Why
  • Movie

• For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Done

• There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Art
  • Writer

• ‘Aren’t people funny? I don’t find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,’ lied the Princess.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • People
  • Funny
  • Princess

• If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler?

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Kitchen

• The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming - to battle - to travel - to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Pain
  • Battle
  • Life is

• I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Accomplishment
  • Bullet
  • Bomb