Jim Hightower Quotes

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Jim Hightower

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• I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Think
  • Lake
  • Lived

• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • May
  • Together

• As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Mom

• I thought celebrity meant Hollywood, that's it. I began to see that does include Olympians. People have so much respect for Olympians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thought

• A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Start

• I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Dying

• There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Problems

• I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Different
  • Stop
  • Reason

• I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

  

  Ian Dury
  • Moon
  • Fists
  • Shaken

• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Single

• I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Blow

• The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Great
  • Fall
  • Accomplishment

• I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Time
  • May
  • Small

• Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Today

• Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • America
  • Help

• I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Sweet

• The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Party

• In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Music
  • House
  • Free

• I can't write what I don't believe in.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • Believe

• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • Military
  • Brother
  • President

• I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Different
  • Science
  • Peace

• We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Talking

• It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

  

  Jim Hightower