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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I'm still learning my craft.
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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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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A lot of people make documentaries because they have something they want to say, but I make them because there's something I want to explore.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.
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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.
