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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My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
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The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.
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I don't like to try strange foods. I like to explore different foods, but if you ask me to eat crocodile or frogs... I'm like no. That's where I draw the line.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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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.
