Jimmy Carter Quotes

On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

Jimmy Carter

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• I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Father
  • Want
  • Know

• My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Patriotic
  • Hindu
  • Nationalist

• You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Long
  • College

• If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Smelling
  • Splurge

• I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Know
  • Author

• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • War
  • Stop

• Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Straight

• There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Great
  • Like
  • Beauty

• The news that a third British citizen has died from his wounds from the attack in Iraq is terrible -- terrible for his family and for his community -- and it is something which all of us condemn unreservedly.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Family
  • Community
  • Died

• A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Quality

• Me and my dog are best friends.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • My Dog

• I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

  

  Nadezhda Mandelstam
  • Real
  • Humanity
  • Silence

• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Wish
  • Realized
  • Wonderful Life

• I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

  

  Ray Kroc
  • Growing
  • Green
  • Soon

• What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Child
  • Professional
  • Tantrums

• On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Human Rights
  • Civil Rights
  • Environmental quality