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Joel Chandler Harris Quotes

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Joel Chandler Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1848 - July 3, 1908

Topics

Luck You Want Out Watch Getting

Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they're trying to fill by performing. I'm anxious to keep creating, but I'm not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.

Life Love Patience Father Wife Me

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

Father Me Wind Book Reading End

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.

Passion Knowledge Me Key Interesting

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

Work Donald Trump Will Minimum Wage

Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.

Douglas Rushkoff

Time Decision Experience Now Flow

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Enough Photograph Picturesque

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

Paradigm Against Sure Make Wanted

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

William P. Young

Community Yourself You Inside Cannot

I am Christian, and I was very vocal about that at first until people started using it against me. Now I've learned to keep it to myself. I don't think it has anything to do with my job or how present myself. I feel like it got really twisted.

Myself Job I Am People Me Think

I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it's very, very close to my house, and I don't want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses 'cause I love horses and it's my hobby.

Love Day City Drive Golf Hobby

'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forward to that experience.

Richard Stanley

Experience Looking Forward Forward

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

Leonard Boswell

Opportunity Time Equality People

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