Jimmy Quotes - Page 2

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

  Marco Rubio

  Fighting, Democrat, Carter

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• See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.

  Megan McCafferty

  Cute, Ideas, Rivers

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.434, Crown

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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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• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Kindness, Regret, Thoughtful

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• As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

  Monica Seles

  Tennis, Way, Used

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• We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all.  For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else.  Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird.  That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend.  From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions.  From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

  Terri Windling

  Art, Passion, Unique

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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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• ... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

  Albert Lee

  Music, Guitar, Sound

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• No,' Jimmy protested.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2010

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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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• Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

  Enid Blyton

  Night, House, Lovely

  "Mr. Galliano's Circus". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1938.

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• Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Guy, Way

  "Love of golf kept Hope tied to game" by Richard Urban, www.espn.com. January 20, 2004.

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

  Willie Nelson

  Guitar, Stuff, West

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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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• 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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• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  Albert Lee

  Music, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• ... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that

  Albert Lee

  Music, Pages, Firsts

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• ... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started waving, I thought, should I wave back and mess up the solo or should I just grin and carry on ? ... I just grinned

  Martin Barre

  Music, Pages, Rooms

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• Jimmy Snuka stood up, 25 feet in the air, drove his knee through my ribs, but did I allow them to carry me out on a strecher? NO! I got right up and walked out!

  Don Muraco

  Wrestling, Air, Feet

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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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