Jimmy Carter Quotes

We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

Jimmy Carter

• Opportunities
• Americans
• Katrina
• Color of the faces

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• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • School
  • Choices

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • You
  • Cannot
  • Govern

• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • You
  • Player
  • Tennis

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• We feel and know that we are eternal.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Eternal

• If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Amazing
  • Role
  • Anything

• How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Important
  • Solitude
  • Independence

• They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• There's nothing more human than two people making love.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Comfortable
  • Relaxed

• I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • Revered
  • Elder

• [John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Matter

• Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Success
  • Daily

• The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Why
  • Sex
  • Moon

• Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Political
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• You might not get it right all the time, but you have to be genuine in your intent.

  

  Judith McKenna
  • Right
  • Genuine
  • Intent

• My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

  

  Steve Valentine
  • World
  • Get Back
  • Rock Band

• China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Help
  • Best

• I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Working
  • Hard
  • Opportunities

• You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Hate
  • Friend
  • Opportunities

• We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Opportunities
  • Americans
  • Katrina