Jim Hightower Quotes

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Jim Hightower

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WinRaceHardCarryGoingElephants

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

John Dos Passos

PeopleSpeech

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

Mel Gibson

HappinessDayLookingSerenityLucky

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

John McEnroe

YouDownCryOutBreakGoing

I was raised with traditional stories of leadership: Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg. And I also was raised with personal examples of leadership. This was my father in Vietnam. And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal, or abandon their comrades.

Stanley A. McChrystal

LeadershipFatherLieWiseBrave

I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.'

Tom Verica

I CanPlayResumeDeadPut

There is simply no defending the preferred mode of travel for many of the celebrity crazies who lecture us about carbon credits. Do you think these folks are willing to give up their mansions and private jets in order to 'save the planet?'

Mike Gallagher

TravelThinkYouCelebrityPlanet

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Lou Reed

WorkPeopleThinkOutWork OutChi

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

Deborah Tannen

WomenMenBookAttentionYouStop

I've absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track.

Christina Grimmie

TrackAgainstSellAbsolutelyHaving

I was sad and in a dark place, and I turned to a hobby to sort of take me out of that.

Cole Sprouse

SadMeHobbyDarkPlaceOut

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Claire McCaskill

PoliticsYouKnowNeverHappen

Adele is selling millions of records, and everybody tries to sing like Adele.

Boy George

SellingSingRecordsLikeEverybody

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