Jane Harman Quotes

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Jane Harman

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• I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Jesus
  • Justice
  • Poverty

• There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Question

• I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Think
  • Happen
  • Fights

• I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Morning

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Soul
  • Career
  • Thought

• To taste fully is to live fully.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Live
  • Taste
  • Fully

• I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Kid

• I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Think
  • Play
  • Lucky

• The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Song
  • You

• We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Pleasure
  • Need
  • Animals

• Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
  • Little
  • Wood

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Die
  • Pain

• I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Victory

• I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Important
  • Money
  • Think

• This strategy aims directly at a reannexation of the Southwest, not militarily, but ethnically, linguistically and culturally through transfer of millions of Mexicans into the United States and a migration of 'Anglos' out of the lands Mexico lost in 1848. In California, the project is well advanced.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Lost
  • California

• I don't think I will ever get tired of wearing pink.

  

  Emma Bunton Spice Girls
  • Tired
  • Pink

• It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Duty

• In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.'

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

  

  John Byrne
  • Bad
  • Dream
  • Reality

• A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

  

  Jane Harman