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
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• 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
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• 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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• 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
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  • Work
  • Winter

• 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
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• 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
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  • 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

• I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did.

  

  David Foster
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• Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Relation
  • Mouth
  • Bottles

• I have a ton of guy friends who talk to me about their bodies, too. But boys are often left out of the body positivity conversation.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Friends
  • Guy

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

  

  Jimmy Carter
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