Jane Harman Quotes

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

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• Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Fiction
  • Point

• 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.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • May
  • Day

• No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Long
  • Government
  • Foreign Policy

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Future
  • Band
  • Favorite

• There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Leadership
  • Matter
  • Gender

• 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.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Real
  • True
  • Action

• 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.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Capacity

• I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Artist

• My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Quality

• '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.'

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • May
  • Sea
  • Autumn

• As with my hat upon my headI walk'd along the Strand,I there did meet another manWith his hat in his hand.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• 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

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Sky

• 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.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Friends
  • Golf

• Angolans who repatriate overseas funds and invest in the economy, companies that generate goods, services, and jobs won't be harassed. No questions will be asked about why their money was abroad, and they won't face legal prosecution.

  

  Joao Lourenco
  • Money
  • Why

• You know, in a way I wish I hadn’t met you two. It’s much more convenient to think of the opposition as a nice homogeneous, dead-wrong mass. Now I've got to muddy my thinking with exceptions.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Wish

• Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Know
  • Friendship

• Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

  

  Jane Harman