Jimmy Quotes - Page 8

• It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.

  Dan Quayle

  Would Be, Politics, Economy

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• The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

  Jonathan Raban

  Dream, Father, Book

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.464, Pan Macmillan

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• I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

  Johnny Ramistella

  New Orleans, Gigs

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• Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in the World Trade Center, he deserves no platform alongside Wesley Clark or a seat next to Jimmy Carter or praise for his pseudo-dramas from high Democrats.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Drama, World, Politics

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• NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

  Carson Daly

  Nbc, Priorities

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• Jimmy found himself wishing to make a dent in Crake, get a reaction; it was one of his weaknesses, to care what other people thought of him.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Wish, Weakness

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.73, Anchor

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• Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

  Chevy Chase

  Running, Want, Default

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• A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

  Liz Sheridan

  New York, Cities, Long

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• We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

  John Mellencamp

  Beach, Thinking, Kind

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• If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.

  Sal Mineo

  Years, Guy, Too Late

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.

  Tom Waits

  Guy, Looks, Way

  "Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me'". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2011.

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• Jimmy Carr is a very nice man who works incredibly hard and has donated loads of money to good causes. He's done absolutely nothing illegal.

  Rufus Hound

  Nice, Men, Done

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• I always said I was determined to own a truly global brand. I didn't buy Jimmy Choo just to have a couple of shoe shops in London, did I?

  Tamara Mellon

  Couple, Shoes, London

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• Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

  Alexei Sayle

  Israel, States, Nations

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• People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -- just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Smart, People

  "Kanye West has acquired some 'Kim K. skills'" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Father, Boys

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.186, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

  Tamara Mellon

  Jobs, Reality, Years

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• Oh, here comes Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Smits!

  Roger Ebert

  Voice, Bunnies, Bugs

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• Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

  Alan Ladd

  Profit, Percent, Jimmy Stewart

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• Though there are many differences between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, they are strikingly similar in their poor economic records and even more so in their shared pessimism and bearishness on America.

  David Limbaugh

  Differences, America, Records

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• My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Play, Actors, Villain

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.

  David O. Russell

  Thinking, Land, People

  "David O. Russell is Back in the Neighborhood". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

  David O. Russell

  Fall, Life Is, Wonderful

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  Otis Rush

  Guitar, Play, Water

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• He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

  Bjorn Borg

  Player, Feel Good, Weakness

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