Jimmy Carter Quotes

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

Jimmy Carter

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• The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • America
  • Nature
  • Future

• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Comparison

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • School
  • Hair
  • Anger

• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Worked

• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Nature
  • Economic
  • Medicine

• As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Character
  • History
  • Face

• I hate musicals. There, I said it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Hate
  • Said
  • Musicals

• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• In my lifeWhy do I smileAt people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • People

• There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Time

• You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Good
  • Movie

• Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

  

  Bjork
  • Energy

• I don't think Canada is very inexpensive anymore. I travel there all the time; it's rather on the expensive side. I think there's significant risk to the Canadian economy.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Time
  • Risk
  • Travel

• The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Important
  • Reading

• I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Grow

• A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Die
  • Champion
  • Overwork

• Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Lost
  • Buy
  • Directing

• My favourite way of getting ready for a red carpet event is to turn the hair and makeup time into a bit of a pre-party. I use the same artists all of the time, so we know each other so well - so it's a 'hanging with friends' session. Music, lots of laughing, and food - because you must eat before the event.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• My greatest influence has and always will be my mother. I admire her strength, fearlessness, and optimism.

  

  Selah Louise Marley
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Influence

• I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Pro-Israeli
  • Biblical prophecy