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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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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.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
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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?'
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I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.
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Try not to have Emily exposed to hours and hours of TV. It is a vile drug which permeates the nervous system, especially in the young.
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My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
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No matter what I go through today, I need not fear. For God is all-powerful and God is here. I am never separate from the One who created me. There is nothing I can do to make Him turn his face away from me. I am loved, I am cared for, and I am totally safe in the arms of God.
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One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
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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.
