Jim Hightower Quotes
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
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I was born 'Harmony,' and it was weird because when I was a little kid, I was picked on so much that when I was 13, I changed my name to Harmful. I thought it was a tougher name, so I had it legally changed. And then, I don't know, it just didn't seem to catch on, so... legally, my name is still Harmful, but I just said I'll go back to Harmony.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
