Jim Harrison Quotes

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

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• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Politics
  • Build

• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Playing
  • Poker

• We get to a point where we're like, you know what, one day we're just not gonna be here anymore, so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Know
  • Day
  • Enjoy

• Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • You
  • Challenges
  • Obstacles

• If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

  

  Larry Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Best
  • Try

• Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Trying
  • Love

• Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?

  

  Carl Jung
  • God
  • Why
  • May

• She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • She
  • Daily

• It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

  

  Ralph Ellison

• This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Up
  • Morning

• Passion without focus can lead you astray.

  

  Ken Auletta
  • Passion
  • Focus

• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Soul
  • Patience

• African American students have less access to algebra and more access to seclusion and restraint than do their white peers. The significant disparity in educational resources has caused this problem of disparate discipline and disparate academic outcomes.

  Chaka Fattah
  • American
  • Discipline

• I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

  

  Charles Lenox Remond
  • Speak
  • Hands
  • Speech

• For most of her existence, Molly had not shied from a truth that most people understood but diligently suppressed: that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do - rebelling. But if they're able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Security
  • Teenagers
  • Giant corporation

• You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • People
  • Country
  • Suffering

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

  

  Jim Harrison