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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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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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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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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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 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 cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
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We need to take care of people that are out there busting their butts trying to make it; that's what everyone's done for me.
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People think because they sweat, their hair is dirty. False. It's just salt and your natural oil.
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I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.
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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.
