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Jim Hightower Quotes

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1943

Topics

Yellow Road Dead Lines Middle

I like to say good dialogue is a million times easier to memorize than bad dialogue - difficult good dialogue, even if it's difficult. Aaron Sorkin dialogue is easier to memorize, even though it's wildly complicated.

Good Bad Complicated Say Difficult

I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

Failure People Disappointment Ego

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

People Die Doing You Serious Will

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Car Man Waiting Green Lights Go

We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.

Michael Bloomberg

Law Control Legal You Security Know

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

People Road Know Run Over Middle

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Simone de Beauvoir

Profound Pleasure Buying

There are quite enough sheep already - be a shepherd: be somebody who's bold and who leads.

Enough Sheep Bold Shepherd Somebody

My whole life, I've been the one in my family that's always too emotional and too sensitive. That's, like, my role in my family.

Life Family Always Emotional Role

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

Age Football Stop Focused Up Until

You should never appease terrorists. The mistake made by critics of the 'talking to your enemy' approach is to equate talking with appeasing.

Jonathan Powell

Mistake Talking You Enemy Never

People must have the right to freely practice their religion. It is written in our founding documents and at the core of our values. If you look at my record, you'll see I safeguarded those values.

Deborah K. Ross

Religion Practice People You Look

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