Jim Hightower Quotes
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
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I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
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The Biblical words about the genesis of heaven and earth are not words of information but words of appreciation. The story of creation is not a description of how the world came into being but a song about the glory of the world's having come into being.
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On the top of the Crumpetty TreeThe Quangle Wangle sat,But his face you could not see,On account of his Beaver Hat.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
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Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
Chad Hurley -
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
