Jim Hightower Quotes
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.Jim Hightower
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo -
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
Lady Gaga -
I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
Jaclyn Smith -
I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
Gary Dourdan -
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards -
Be who you are and be that well.
Saint Francis de Sales
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren -
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
Adam Cohen -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Ed Gillespie
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
Calvin Johnson -
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
Taylor Swift -
British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
Taylor Lautner -
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty -
As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
T. Boone Pickens
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
Ziggy Marley -
In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
Weili Dai -
I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
Pat Nixon -
I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
James Earl Jones -
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
Warren Bennis -
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
Jim Hightower