Harriet Harman Quotes

If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.

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• Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Real
  • Ideas

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • End

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Belief
  • Religions
  • Deity

• All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Experience
  • Scary
  • New

• My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Time
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Heart
  • See
  • Trade

• Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Great
  • Character
  • Earth

• There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Popular

• I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Hamlet

• My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Best
  • Things
  • Jokes

• On the death penalty:(the argument that it costs more to appeal death row convictions than to imprison someone for life.) 'Ken Starr gave me the perfect comeback on that,' she scoffs. 'How many millions of dollars were we willing to spend to show that the President had oral sex?'

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Life
  • She
  • Death

• I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Culture

• The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Poverty
  • Direct
  • Timr

• The end of 1996 and beginning of 1997 brought a Pearl Jam European tour and the beginnings of preparation for the recordings of "Yield.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Beginning
  • Preparation
  • Recordings

• I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• It's really interesting for me as a filmmaker to go back and look at the films I've made and see where I was at that point in my life and also where my ideals were and the beliefs that I had and look at the ways I've grown and evolved and apply that to the next thing.

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • Life
  • Beliefs
  • Filmmaker

• If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.

  

  Harriet Harman