Joy Harjo Quotes
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.
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Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
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When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.
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When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.
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A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
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The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.
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My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.
