Jim Harrison Quotes
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
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We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.
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Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
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After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
