Jimmy Carter Quotes

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

Jimmy Carter

• Carter Center
• Disease eradication
• Taskforce

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• My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Film
  • First
  • Crush

• Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Women
  • Country
  • Reality

• I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Myself
  • Mentoring

• Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Question
  • Perspective

• I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
  • Time
  • Service

• There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

  

  Maxfield Parrish
  • Work

• Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do. . . The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Help
  • Service
  • Matter

• My advice is: Don't take yourself too seriously, laugh a lot, enjoy your time with family, and appreciate the unique talents of others. Trust in God, love your neighbor, say you're sorry, forgive, and work hard.

  

  Willie Robertson
  • Enjoy
  • Neighbor

• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Unhappy

• The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Children
  • America

• The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

  

  Ashley Montagu
  • Live
  • Single

• I find most children quite inspiring.

  

  Bjork
  • Children

• Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Fun

• If I was a man, I don't know if I'd settle down long before I was 50.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Long

• My mom has a rare talent for being able to open up the refrigerator, and with the peas, the leftover eggs, the cream, the spinach, the cheese, and a little rice, she can just whip up incredible risotto.

  

  Cote de Pablo
  • Mom
  • Talent
  • Risotto

• 'Vexilla regis prodeunt inferniverso di noi; però dinanzi mira,'disse 'l maestro mio, 'se tu 'l discerni.'

  

  Dante Alighieri

• The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

  

  Amitai Etzioni
  • World
  • Needs
  • Architecture

• You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Wonder
  • Curtains
  • Hammocks

• The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Programs
  • Carter Center

• The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Carter Center
  • Disease eradication
  • Taskforce