Jim Hightower Quotes

Jim Hightower (25)

Birth:	11th January, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Columnist

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Today's Anniversary - 26th May

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• 1947 - Glenn Turner
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• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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

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• We’re a very young football team. We have a long ways to go before we can compete against the better people on our schedule. We have a young offense, particularly in places that handle the ball.

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• Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn’t make a good landfill.

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• He can take his campaign funds, which he raised more than a million bucks, and now convert that into his legal defense fund.

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• This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

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• His aunt lives right down the street from school and he had been to STM before as a player in our Sunkist basketball tournament. He showed up the morning of our Labor Day practice.

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• Like us, Carencro is playing a lot of sophomores. They have great tradition and they’re very talented. We’ll have to eliminate our mistakes so we can give them a good game.

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• We just made a lot of mistakes in the jamboree.

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• I think it was just a combination of the two. We played pretty well on defense, and their youth really showed. Just like our youth showed on offense at times. But I’m very pleased. We haven’t been 1-0 in a long time.

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• In the second half our offense got in gear. We played pretty well and mixed it up. We had good balance in the second half. I thought Spencer Hebert did a good job running the ball tonight and Bubba Taylor had a nice long run.

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• Our defense dominated most of the night. We ended up allowing -20 yards rushing and six yards of total offense. The defense did a super job.

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• We just had a few plays missed by a hair. We weren’t consistent on offense. We need to regroup and see if we can be a little better next week.

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• There won’t be any trick-or-treating with him this year.

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• I thought our kids bounced back well. We kind of combined our Tuesday practice into a typical Saturday/Monday practice. We just had to adjust our schedule slightly. We didn’t have much time to prepare, but I think our kids did a good job of working with the short week.

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• I think our kids are very aware of the situation. We realize how blessed we are to still be together and practicing. In the blink of an eye, kids have had seasons cut short or eliminated. We’re practicing with a sense of thankfulness.

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• My heart goes out to all those people.

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• The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

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• The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

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• Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

  Jim Hightower