Jim Hightower Quotes
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I don't like controversy.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.
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There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Our responsibility is to protect people and help them into work.
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
