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Jimmy Carter Calls Condi Rice a Liar ... Jimmy Carter continues to plumb new depths of disgraceful behavior: Carter says Secretary Rice ‘not telling truth’.
charles foster johnson— April 23, 2008 [30]
I don't know what people have got against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.
— 1980 Campaign speech for Ronald Reagan, 2 Nov.
Since the great days of Jimmy Greaves, it's the only time anyone's managed to score five times in a Chelsea shirt.
lord stratford— "The wit and wisdom of Tony Banks", BBC News, 8 January 2006
— after a kiss-and-tell story appeared detailing how former Conservative minister David Mellor, his close friend and fellow Chelsea fan, wore football kit during sex
This week, NBC told us five years in advance that Conan O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno, but the network still hasn't said who'll take over for Jimmy Fallon this weekend.
— Now ironic quote from Entertainment Weekly from October 1, 2004 about a replacement Weekend Update anchor
— Susman, Gary (2004-10-01), "Riggle Room". EW.com (accessed 2009-02-05)
Which would you like sitting in the oval office dealing with it (a major crisis)? Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Edwards, Geraldine Ferraro, Jimmy Carter, ... or Sarah Palin? Personally, I would pick Palin.
— Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2008, interview with Kelsey Hubbard. [1]
From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.
jimmy hoffa— Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses", p. 86
There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.
jimmy hoffa— Charles Brandt, "I Heard You Paint Houses", p. 90
But you have to recognize the fact that, critically, Jimmy is great at what he does, and I think he's doing some of the best comedy in late night. I'm a very big fan.
jimmy kimmel— Robert Morton, former executive producer for David Letterman on Late Show (CBS) and Late Night (NBC) — reported in Don Kaplan (September 12, 2006) "It's Good To Be Kimmel - Midnight Turns Into Jimmy's Prime Time", New York Post.
We've always known Jimmy's had a great deal of raw talent. It's exciting watching him use that talent to become such a dynamic and gifted late night host. The sky is the limit for Jimmy and this show.
jimmy kimmel— ABC Chairman Lloyd Braun — reported in ZAP2IT.COM (December 10, 2003) "'Jimmy Kimmel' back for a second season", Chicago Tribune RedEye Edition, Chicago Tribune, p. 46.
I am never content with what I have [accomplished]. Jimmy reminded me of those less fortunate than I, people out there who are struggling just to survive.
newton lee— Disney Consumer Products News (Summer 1998)
Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
john osborne— Look Back in Anger, Act II, sc. I (1956)
If you find yourself despairing about the state of our great country, just think about how unlikely it would have seemed, back in the malaise days of 1979, that Jimmy Carter would one day return to Washington via Reagan Airport.
james taranto— From Best of the Web Today for October 1, 2010
Tell him to go to hell; I'm for Jimmy Byrnes.
harry s. truman— Upon hearing that Franklin Roosevelt wanted him to be his vice presidential running mate (21 July 1944), as quoted in Choosing Truman : The Democratic Convention of 1944 (1994); also quoted in "Harry S. Truman : America's last great leader?" in USA Today magazine (January 1995) by the Society for the Advancement of Education
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."
Art Buchwald— Time magazine (29 September 1986)
[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place."
Marshall McLuhan— Brand, Stewart. "McLuhan's last words". New Scientist, 29 Jan 1981.
One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.
thomas sowell— Random Thoughts, 15 August 2002
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
colin wilson— p. 2 (Postscript to the Outsider (1967))
Veronica: Another thing girls love are Jimmy Choos, Dolce & Gabbana, and convertibles that cost more than the gross national product of Sri Lanka.
— From Veronica Mars, 2004-07, Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
I made a deal with the devil, Jimmy. She dies, I go free. [Jim Raynor: "We all got out choices to make."] Damn Shame...
— Who: Tychus Findlay
— Source: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
— Note: After successfully transforming Kerrigan back to her human self, Tychus Findlay contacts Mengsk, who orders him to kill her. Raynor, asks Tychus what he did, Tychus responds. As he says this, Jimmy slowly reaches for his pistol. Tychus almost kills Kerrigan, but Jim Raynor knocks Findlay's rifle out of the path of her head, and quickly kills him.
Nupedia launched in March 2000 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. ... Wales's company Bomis, an Internet search portal and a vendor of online 'erotic images' (featuring the Bomis Babe Report), picked up the tab initially.
— Roy Rosenzweig (2013). Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. Columbia University Press. pp. 54, 81, 258, 261. ISBN 0231521715.
Jimmy Wales edited his own Wikipedia entry to remove references to Larry Sanger's role in cofounding the online encyclopedia and to Bomis Babes as presenting 'pornography.'
— Roy Rosenzweig (2013). Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. Columbia University Press. pp. 54, 81, 258, 261. ISBN 0231521715.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales underscores that Bomis, his dot-com search engine business, was not directly involved in pornography, pointing out that its content was R-rated rather than X-rated, like Maxim magazine rather than Playboy .
— Jonathan Zittrain (2008). The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It. Yale University Press. p. 289. ISBN 0300145349.
Back in 2005, when I was Christopher Eccleston, we saw one of the largest increases on record, of CO2 in the atmosphere. Unless we keep the rise in global temperature to under 2 degrees, by the time I'm Daniel Radcliffe or wee Jimmy Crankie, I won't be able to save the planet. I won't be here to help you -- well I might, but I'll be that bloke who won Any Dream Will Do.
david tennant— Live Earth concert 2007
