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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I am sure we all realize that this struggle that is going on though the World is really nothing more or less than a conflict between two opposing technocracies manifesting itself to the capitalization of economic resources and products and all that sort of thing.
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Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.
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As long as you're being honest and there's intention in what you're doing, then I think that energy permeates your field and becomes like a homing signal for other people with like energies.
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I am out of season all years round - watch machinery roar to my empty sound.Touch my heart and feel winter, hold my hand and be doomed forever.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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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.