Jim Harrison Quotes
I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.
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The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.
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As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
