Harry S Truman Quotes
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
Quotes to Explore
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.
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The trouble with New York today is that it's lost its balance. I love the new, greener New York, but it takes all kinds of worlds to make a World.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.
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Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
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The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd because at that age that's a stupidly ridiculous idea 'cause how will I ever be a filmmaker.
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No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.
