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Joy Harjo Quotes

I've always loved the desert. I've spent most of my life in the Southwest. It's certainly influenced my work. I used to dream about it when I was young.

Joy Harjo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1951

Topics

Life Work Desert Loved My Life Used

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

Joe Rogan

Compromise Laugh Want Never Act Get

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Change Be Prepared Living Must

Like any startup in hyper-growth mode, growth often brings change, and with it, evolution in the executive team.

Jennifer Hyman

Change Growth Team Evolution Like

I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.

John Lasseter

Me Game Think Hands You Play

The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style.

Tom Wolfe

Style Writing You Bad Why Newspaper

I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

Robbie Robertson

People Remember You Country Know

My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance... It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, 'I don't know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,' at the same time, I did understand that this was passion.

Rodney Crowell

Mother Passion Great Time Me Start

One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.

Lisa See

You Unique Look Letters Old Up

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

Chuck Feeney

Money Government Die You Person

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

Ty Dolla Sign

Police Free Seeing Injustice Reason

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

Mario Monti

Growth Budget Look Illusion Go Will

I hope I inspire children to make films.

Martin Freeman

Hope Children Inspire Make Films