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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One aspect of the Vietnam conflict by the way that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm.
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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
