Carter Quotes - Page 8

• Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Tests, Realizing

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.223, Penguin UK

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• This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

  Rick Riordan

  Home, Musician, World

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• I’ll distract them,” Carter said. “You search. The Trophy room is through there.” “Carter!” But the fool ran off to protect me. I hate when he does that.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Doe, Rooms

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I must admit I’m impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard.

  Rick Riordan

  Isis, Magic, Lizards

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

  John Lennon

  Dream, Jesus, Parking Meters

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

  Jimmy Carter

  Long, Able, Active

  "Former President Jimmy Carter shares his full, lucky life in new memoir". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 9, 2015.

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• No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue and hieroglyph, and background notes on the construction of the magical headquarters of the House of Life. I will spare you that pain. It's big. It's full of magic. It's underground. There. Sorted.

  Rick Riordan

  Pain, Cities, House

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• Why don’t I know You?” “Does anyone ever really know someone else?” “You think your cute,” she told him. “You think your gorgeous. But I’m the one guy here who knows better.” “So I’m not gorgeous?” Macey challenged. “Of course you are,” He started away, turned back at the last minute. “But I’m the guy who figured out that’s not all you are." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Cute, Thinking, Guy

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• Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Religious, Expression

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• What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.

  Roger Ebert

  Adventure, Boys, Firsts

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• Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

  Walter Annenberg

  White, House, Done

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• I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

  James Sellars

  Musical, Doe, Strings

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• Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Redneck, Rights, Drunk

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• In the current [Carter] administration, who can use the White House swimming pool and tennis courts is decided at the very highest level. President Ford did not bother himself with such minor details. He let me swim in the pool. He only got upset when I tried to walk across the water.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Swimming, White, Water

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• Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Book, Diaries, Letters

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• I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman.

  Lynn Collins

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

  Jimmie Johnson

  President, Bills, Clinton

  "Jimmie Johnson Interview: Respect Is The Thing I Want The Most". Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.sbnation.com. September 14, 2011.

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• If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

  Jean O'Leary

  Different, Hiv, Stories

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• Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

  Big Pun

  Education, Kids, Projects

  Song: We Don't Care, Album: Yeeeah Baby, 2000

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• Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

  Jimmy Carter

  Wire, Way, Hours

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• Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

  Ed Koch

  Dog, Catchers, American Politics

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• The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Strong, Believe, Differences

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• Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Atheism, President, Speech

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• Now, if you're an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: 'Half-man, half-amazing.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Nba

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• I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

  Beth Ditto

  Teacher, Forever, Singers

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