Jimmy Carter Quotes

We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Desire

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Think
  • Period

• I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.

  

  Victor Oladipo
  • Weird
  • Just
  • Dude

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Dream
  • Action
  • Yourself

• Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • More
  • Read
  • Then

• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Sports

• At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Actress
  • Vengeance
  • Phased

• Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Diversification

• People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Diversity

• The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • Women
  • Character

• I'm used to smoking some weed and getting the munchies. This nigga sold me some shit, had me looking at the refrigerator for three hours. I'm just in the kitchen, sitting on the stove, just...sits on stool, blanking staring...I bet you there ain't shit in there, nigga. I bet you...'

  

  Katt Williams
  • Kitchen
  • Smoking
  • Weed

• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Know
  • Person
  • Saying

• If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Risk
  • Red

• Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • People
  • Science
  • Christian

• We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Peace