Jane Harman Quotes
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.
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'Aye, build it on these banks,' the monarch said,'That when the autumn winds have swept the sea,They may come hither with their falling rains,A voice of mighty weeping o'er her grave.'
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Lateral thinking is closely related to insight, creativity and humour. All four processes have the same basis. But whereas insight, creativity and humour can only be prayed for, lateral thinking is a more deliberate process. It is as definite a way of using the mind as logical thinking - but a very different way.
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We'll be raising our hands Shining up to the sky Cause we've got the fire fire fire And we gonna let it burn
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You would not believe my suffering... Death would be sweeter... I can't go another day without seeing you. Atrocious madness, it's the end. I won't be able to work any more. Malevolent goddess! And yet I love you furiously.
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I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.
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Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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I like to do things that you need to chip away at.
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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
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Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
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Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.
