Jim Hightower Quotes

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

Jim Hightower

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• When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Great
  • Food
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Start

• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • You
  • Television
  • News

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Action
  • Lost
  • President

• 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.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Subject

• Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • You
  • Choices

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Age

• Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Done
  • You
  • Said

• 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.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Song
  • Earth

• On the top of the Crumpetty TreeThe Quangle Wangle sat,But his face you could not see,On account of his Beaver Hat.

  

  Edward Lear

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Experience
  • Fear
  • Stop

• You ask 'What is life?' That is the same as asking 'What is a carrot?' A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life

• I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Time

• The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books - stories about boys in school who started to play football and then became the captain. I'd read them cover to cover. I just got lost in them.

  

  Ben Lloyd-Hughes
  • School
  • Lost
  • Football

• It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

• The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.

  

  Nuno Oliveira
  • Secret
  • Succeed
  • Riding

• The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Play
  • Child
  • Wind

• I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Goals

• If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

  

  Jim Hightower