Jim Hightower Quotes
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
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Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
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One cheerleader per season per NFL squad is chosen to attend the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. All season long, the cheerleaders speculate about who will be chosen.
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For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
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The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
