Tom Harkin Quotes

A lot of times, candidates for office, especially incumbents, seem to get drawn into their opponents' arguments, and fighting on their turf, because you want to defend yourself. That's wrong. Fight on your own turf. Make them come to you. Make them explain why they don't agree with your position. I think that a lot of times, too many liberals, progressives, lose because they're afraid to really stand up for what they believe in.

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• I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Girl

• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Good
  • Future

• I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Stop

• I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Myself

• I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Thinking

• My charity is called 'Grand Kids.' People keep thinking it's 'Grandkids.'

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I know if you get mad, and in a world with all the competitors I've been around in my life, either from fighting or wrestling or other sports, you have to learn to breathe.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Life
  • World
  • Fighting

• I went through a stage of wearing quite lairy trainers. I had all these trainers in gold or pink or silver. I look at them now in the cupboard - what was I thinking? Such an awful idea.

  

  James Corden
  • Thinking
  • Gold
  • Pink

• I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for character work as an actor because you're fighting the cause or mourning the child or fighting the disease, etc.

  

  Bonnie Bedelia
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character

• The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Long
  • Fighting
  • Military

• Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

  

  Emily Saliers
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Fighting

• I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

  

  David R. Brower
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Today

• Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, and also was a very forceful personality, had a very good relationship with the president, and was in a very different place, for example, than Ben Bernanke, who is an academic, quiet guy: spent most of his time thinking about monetary policy.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.

  

  Betsy Beers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Space

• The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Universe

• Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Thinking
  • Creativity

• I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I think there will always be great new music and bands. As long as there's people around, there's going to be great music. I think there's bands like Wolf Eyes, Q & Not U, the Evens and many others that are doing great stuff. The music that doesn't please you, you just don't listen. No one makes me listen to Nickelback, so long may they wave.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • You
  • College

• A lot of times, candidates for office, especially incumbents, seem to get drawn into their opponents' arguments, and fighting on their turf, because you want to defend yourself. That's wrong. Fight on your own turf. Make them come to you. Make them explain why they don't agree with your position. I think that a lot of times, too many liberals, progressives, lose because they're afraid to really stand up for what they believe in.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Thinking
  • Fighting
  • Office