Joy Harjo Quotes

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

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• I only listen to Lil Wayne.

  

  Young Thug
  • Listen
  • Only
  • Wayne

• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Respect
  • Wisdom
  • Listen

• I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Live
  • Man
  • Listen

• What I do for a living is listen.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Living
  • Listen

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• Know or listen to those who know.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Know
  • Motivational
  • Listen

• I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Air
  • Listen
  • Radio

• Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Me
  • Listen
  • Conservative

• We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Listen

• An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Think
  • Listen
  • Intellectual

• Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Listen
  • Religions
  • Lot

• On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Need
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Learn

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Tour

• In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Black
  • Deep

• I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

  

  Kanye West
  • Nice
  • Rap
  • Listen

• If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • You
  • Listen

• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I just saw her. She was so … alive.

  

  Colin Meloy
  • Alive
  • Her
  • saw

• I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • I Think
  • Head
  • Feet

• Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

  

  Joy Harjo
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