Jimmy Carter Quotes
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
-
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
-
More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
-
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
-
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
-
Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
-
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
-
I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.
-
In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
-
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
-
As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
-
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
-
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
-
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
-
I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
-
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
-
I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
-
My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they wanted to make memories with me.
-
Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
-
We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.
-
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
-
I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
-
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
-
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
