Jim Harrison Quotes
I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
Quotes to Explore
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.
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The CEO of AT&T told an interviewer back in 2005 that he wanted to introduce a new business model to the Internet: charging companies like Google and Yahoo! to reliably reach Internet users on the AT&T network.
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Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
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A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
