Harry S Truman Quotes
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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My hunger is always there.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.
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Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.
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Debajo de tu piel vive la luna.
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This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
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Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.
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No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.
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Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
