Jim Hightower Quotes
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
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I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.
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Who does understand life?
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
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I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.
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I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were 'Maxwell’s Equations of Software!'
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I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.
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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
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Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.
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Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions.
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It's very tough when two creative people are together.
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I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
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Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.
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I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
