Joy Harjo Quotes

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

Joy Harjo

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• People want you to fail.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • World
  • Free
  • Player

• The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Psychology
  • Hidden

• It doesn't matter to me if someone is a Republican or a Democrat, I'm going to be the governor for all Marylanders.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Me
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Free
  • Never

• If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Space
  • Hand

• Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Friends
  • Girl
  • Cool

• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Simple

• Why must everybody like you?

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Why

• Madame Chairman, I presume this is to sweep Britain clean of socialism

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• I don't feel like I need a break from the theater, ever.

  

  Katie Finneran

• A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • Support

• The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Door

• I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Sin
  • Weakness
  • Sympathy

• Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Family
  • Strong

• I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I've written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

  

  John Darnielle
  • People
  • Dark

• On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Environment

• Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

  

  Joy Harjo
  • People
  • Remember
  • You Are