Jim Harrison Quotes
Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
Quotes to Explore
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.
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A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.
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You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
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Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.
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WE HAVE SEEN THAT those holding adoptionist views of Christ claimed to represent the earliest views of Jesus’s own apostles .. Docetic views, when first we meet them, appear to have emerged out of incarnation Christologies later in the first century—but still during the times of the New Testament.
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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
