Harry S Truman Quotes

Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

Harry S Truman

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• As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.

  

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• People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

  

  Ira Glass
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• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

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• Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.

  

  Jackee Harry
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• Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.

  

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• To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.

  

  Cy Twombly

• The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

  

  Lauren Tarshis
  • Important
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• I actually don't wear fragrance. I always feel like I smell cheap. I guess I just haven't found one that's not overpowering or too sweet. Even when I try one of the super masculine scents, I just think, 'I don't want to smell like a man.' Besides, I like my own scent.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Sweet

• I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.

  

  Lionel Barber
  • Morning
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• I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.

  

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• If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.

  

  Jill Lepore
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• You always hope someone will take you under their wing and teach you - when it's Warren Beatty, it's like, 'Oh my God, how is this real?'

  

  Lily Collins
  • God
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• I don't know what I would do without my smartphone as I am on the go all day.

  

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• We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives.

  

  Charlotte Rae
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• Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

  

  Leon Spinks
  • Opportunity

• I have yet to meet very many people in the press who are really, truly interested in writing a good story or getting at the truth. Most press people, when they come into an article, have an angle that they want already, so they need points to support that angle, whatever the angle may be.

  

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• I'm a huge Twitter dork! That's the best way for fans to keep informed about what's going on with me.

  

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• You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.

  

  Frank Crane

• Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Space
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• I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Language
  • Speak
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• There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • House

• Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Civil honour
  • Past Grand Master of Masons