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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'There was only one cadet I ever really hated. Just one name I can think of,' The Boo said. 'That'll make an interesting story for the book, Colonel. Who is the jerk?' I asked. 'It was you, Conroy. Just you. There was something about you that I hated when you first walked into fourth battalion, you worthless bum.'
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For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.
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Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
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True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
