Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
James Allen "Jim" Hightoweris an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 January 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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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 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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He's a truly gifted athlete. It takes an awful lot of discipline (to play against Williams), but even discipline is not enough. You end up in one-on-one situations and some of the times our ones won't be as good as their ones. We have to do a good job of helping each other out.
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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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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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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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If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.
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If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.
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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.
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Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
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If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
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Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.