Harry S Truman Quotes
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
Abel Ferrara -
I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent -
My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
Dan Aykroyd -
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell -
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
Umberto Eco -
The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
Sam Altman -
You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
Naveen Jain -
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.
Felicity Jones -
Nobody is offered a World Cup.
Abby Wambach
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You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.
E. Joseph Cossman -
'The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. As a precaution to ever committing major acts of evil it is our solemn duty never to do what we're told, this is the only way we can be sure.'
Banksy -
Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.
Walter Raleigh -
Saigon is like all the other great modern cities of the world. It's the mess left from people getting rich.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It is very natural that clever young men should be rather odious. They are conscious of gifts that they do not know how to use. They are exasperated with the world that will not recognize their merit. They have something to give, and no hand is stretched out to receive it. They are impatient for the fame they regard as their due.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that 'the world' would decline to recognize them.
Colin Wilson
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The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.
Barack Obama -
I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.
Orlando Bloom -
We seem to be able to be fully comfortable only when the remainder of humanity can be labeled as members versus nonmembers.
E. O. Wilson -
Nana used to say whenever you start feeling like the world is taking a bite out of you, bite back by counting your blessings.
Christie Craig -
When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.
John Barrasso -
The C students run the world.
Harry S Truman