Joy Harjo Quotes
There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
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What force is more potent than love?
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
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From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
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I'm the third of five children.
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When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.
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I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week.
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There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.
