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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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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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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Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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I write my columns pretty carefully.
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If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.
