Carter Quotes - Page 5

• Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil is the guy we should all be emulating." The king! So look, I'm so blessed that my first hero took me in.

  Jon Gordon

  Kings, Blessed, Hero

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• I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and... Jay McShann. I just found myself in some circumstances, on some gigs or sometimes in clubs, with the ability to talk to some of these people. Just being around their energy and being around that history was invaluable. And what I normally say to young people that are getting into the music, if you can and go... now there's less of those folks around, sadly.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Clubs, Gigs

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• At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US nuclear warning system had detected an imminent 220-missile nuclear attack on the US. Shortly thereafter, the automated system revised its projection from 220 missiles to an all-out attack of 2200 missiles. Just before Brzezinski was about to wake up President Carter to authorize a counterattack, he was told that the 'attack' was an illusion caused by 'a computer error in the system'.

  Stansfield Turner

  Air, Errors, June

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• I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Doors, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

  Robert Glasper

  Hip Hop, Hips, Jazz

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• Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.

  William Safire

  President, Unions, Soviet Union

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• The old rule in Massachusetts politics is shape of the field determines the winner. If you have got a whole bunch of hawks, all the way from [Mike] Huckabee all the way across to [Chris]Christie, that covers the spectrum on every other issue, all hawks, all hawks, and one guy out there saying, not me, Jimmy Carter won that way back in `76. I know it`s 1,000 years ago.

  Chris Matthews

  Years, Issues, Guy

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Average, Years, Office

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• Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Brother, Thinking, Dinner

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• From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way.

  William J. Clinton

  Laughter, Mean, Thinking

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• The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

  Duke Ellington

  Musician, Problem, Made

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• I am flattered that Bob Carter should ask me to launch what I think is a significant new book on climate change. I have developed a very high regard for Bob in the years that I have known him. He has been a terrific and leading voice in combatting the scare mongering that we have all been subjected to on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

  Nick Minchin

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

  Ted Koppel

  Morning, Night, People

  "The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis". Interview with Sarah Goldstein, www.gq.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities.

  Edwin Diamond

  Media, Simplicity, Reporters

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• There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And the one debate with President Jimmy Carter, he stood toe-to-toe and reassured people that he wasn't bound and determined to start World War III on the spot and could make a coherent statement.

  Mark Shields

  War, People, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

  Petra Haden

  Country, Song, Dad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat frequently, in the range of 100 to 200 times, though, regrettably, not in a thematic or notably profound or even interesting way. Others, like Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, cited them rarely.

  Paul Kengor

  Profound, Interesting, President

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• [Gerald] Ford and [Jimmy] Carter, in fact, were huge disappointments to me. Think about this: They were the presidents around the time of America's historic bicentennial, and yet rarely quoted the founders.

  Paul Kengor

  Disappointment, Thinking, America

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

  Paul Kengor

  Inspiration, President, Surprise

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.

  Robert Scheer

  Texas, Georgia, States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Knowing, People, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.

  Evan Osnos

  Office, President, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Why shouldn't you think it's crazy to believe in a green deer? All your life you have been taught to believe in only what you can use-to set on the table, to put in the bank, to build a house with. What possible use would a green deer be to anyone? Who would believe in a man with a blazing bush in his cart? Then let me tell you that it is beliefs just such as these that are the only hope of the world. Let me tell you that until men are ready to believe in the green deer and the strange carter, we shall not lift our noses above the bloody mess we have made of our living.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Crazy, Believe, Men

  "All At Once Is What Eternity Is: Musings On Kenneth Patchen" by Carolyn Zaikowski, therumpus.net. December 2, 2011.

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• After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the best way to help the women in this beleaguered country was to start a small beauty school in Kabul, where aid workers could get their roots done. Vanity Fair, edited by Bush-basher Graydon Carter, cheered her great humanitarian effort.

  Myrna Blyth

  Country, War, School

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• What I know of Steve Trevor is everything that I learned from 'Wonder Woman,' the television series with Lynda Carter. And I don't remember much. I do remember his uniform, though.

  Nathan Fillion

  Uniforms, Television, Wonder Woman

  "Nathon Fillion talks about playing Steve Trevor in “Wonder Woman”". CBR Interview, www.cbr.com. January 28, 2009.

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