Jimmy Quotes - Page 4

• Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Wise, Men, Paychecks

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• I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.

  Kurt Cobain

  Men, Good Man, Lips

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• So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind. Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)

  Ally Carter

  School, Weekend, Boys

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• I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Father

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• In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

  Helen Thomas

  Nice, Past, Men

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• Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

  Eric Alterman

  Kenya, Born, Carter

  "Obama's Awful '70's Show Echoes Carter" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

  Evan Bayh

  Two, Today, Determined

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• Jimmy Carter, of course, was beloved. Peanut farmer. Came out of nowhere, governor of Georgia. Normally Democrats hate Southern accents, 'cause Southern accents equals Deliverance, equals hayseed, equals idiot. But if it's one of them... But you had to look the other way with Jimmy Carter and then here came Bill Clinton later. So depending on where the Southern accent's from, they'll make an exception and not be prejudicial about it. But for the most part, a Southern accent may as well be a slave owner as far as Democrats are concerned; they want no part of it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Southern, Deliverance

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Emotional, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

  Leighton Meester

  Kids, Who Cares, Stuff

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• And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

  Willie Nelson

  Guitar, Stuff, West

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• My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

  Jane Pauley

  Dad, Father, Confused

  "Jane Pauley Says Goodbye". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. May 30.

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• I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Song, Night

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

  Marco Rubio

  Fighting, Democrat, Carter

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• When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Years, President

  "Democratic National Convention Coverage; "Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?". Live Coverage of Obama's Speech in Norfolk, Virginia, edition.cnn.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

  Mort Sahl

  Demise, Lost, Carter

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• I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Guitar, Play, Favourite

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• Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

  Emily Giffin

  Kindness, Past, Small Acts

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.97, St. Martin's Press

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• ...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nostalgia, Hunger

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• Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jobs, Clever, Should Have

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• There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them.

  Michael Jackson

  Hero, Character, People

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• First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rusack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.

  Tim O'Brien

  Girl, College, Light

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.

  Markus Zusak

  Men, Faces, Made

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.56, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

  Melina Marchetta

  Soccer, Mother, Running

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.143, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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