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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In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
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The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.
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Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.
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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.
