Harry S Truman Quotes

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Harry S Truman

• America
• House of Representatives
• Un-American Activities Committee

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Failure

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• America is our biggest market, and I really do believe if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Believe
  • America
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• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
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  • Time
  • May

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
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• Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

  

  Barack Obama
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• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
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• I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • America
  • Together
  • Myself

• There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Political
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• Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Important

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • America
  • Kind

• Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • America
  • Old

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Job
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• America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Better
  • Well

• Cyberterrorism has become an increasingly prevalent and serious threat here in America, both to individuals and businesses.

  

  Dana Boente
  • America
  • Serious
  • Businesses

• Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

  

  Larry King
  • America
  • Today
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• We talk about how hard it is now. But if we look back at the '60s, we actually had a president that was assassinated. We had riots, we had Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the FBI, and the Black Panther war. There was so much happening at the time where it felt like America was coming apart at the seams.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Time
  • America
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• In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Important
  • America
  • Focus

• I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

  

  Megan Fox
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  • Friends
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• Defenders don't really get any sort of notoriety or anything like that.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn

• A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Cutting

• I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

  

  Harry S Truman
  • America
  • House of Representatives
  • Un-American Activities Committee