Louise Harman (Lady Sovereign) Quotes

I've never really been a part of anything but my own project.

Louise Harman

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Crazy

• Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • You
  • Son
  • Well

• Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.

  

  Samantha Power
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • You
  • Red
  • Saying

• For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Time
  • Long
  • Thought

• I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • You
  • Coward
  • Cautious

• In Kansas City, most of the time, if we'd have made it to the playoffs, we would have been happy. But our team wasn't that good.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Control

• A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Whole
  • Useful
  • Lemon

• I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Great
  • Music
  • Enjoy

• Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Long
  • Girl

• Cat, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Nature
  • Cat

• I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral, and my family didn't watch TV. I wasn't exposed to people with icon status. David Bowie popped up, but I had already shaved my eyebrows off by the time I saw his.

  

  Pete Burns
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Ability

• In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

  

  Karan Bajaj
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Journey

• I've never really been a part of anything but my own project.

  

  Louise Harman