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.
Quotes to Explore
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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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.
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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.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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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.
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Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.
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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.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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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.
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
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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?
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
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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.
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Passion without focus can lead you astray.
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
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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.
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You'll never make a success of yourself when you're doing an impersonation of somebody else.
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My lord and Dr Johnson disputed a little, whether the savage or the London shopkeeper had the best existence; his lordship, as usual, preferring the savage.
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Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
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The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
