Jim Hightower Quotes
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
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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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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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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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Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.
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We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.
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Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.
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My hobbies are run-on sentences.
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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.
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When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
