Joy Harjo Quotes
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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It is impossible to persue this nonsense any further.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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A lot of people think pitchers, and they just think throwing and that's where all the power comes from. It's really not. It starts from the ground up. If you have a strong base, the legs will actually do the work and build all the torque and power you need to throw. So if you have weak legs at the end of the year, that's not good.
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People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.
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Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
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If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
