Jim Harrison Quotes
If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Of course I get hurt.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I would like to see America some day.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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I remember I would always joke among my friends about a remake of 'Point Break'. I would say, 'You know what? Whenever there's a remake of 'Point Break', I'm going to do it.'
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.
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Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.
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I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
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If I can't be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
