Jim Harrison Quotes
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
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It's definitely complicated, but it's all about the music. When people focus on other things, I think that's when it gets lost, and I would just rather focus on the music of it all.
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I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.
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I really take a lot of influence from London style.
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We are all naturally xenophobic.
