Jim Harrison Quotes
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Elves are cool, man.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.
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Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
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Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
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A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
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I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.
