Jim Hightower Quotes
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
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Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
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I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.
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In music industry they always want you to write something like the one that was popular. And that's something you kind of have to just - sometimes you just say yes to people, like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure," and then you just write the one you want to write.
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Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
