Jim Harrison Quotes
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I try to do my best.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
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I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
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Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat.
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Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.Ask me a riddle and I reply,Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.
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Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.
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At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
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There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
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The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
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Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
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I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.
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I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
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I wish I was better looking.
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Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
