Harry S Truman Quotes

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
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• I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
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• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
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• I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Writing
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  • Moment

• A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Die
  • Dinner
  • Obligation

• There will never be talking pictures.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Never
  • Talking
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• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
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• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
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• How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Singing
  • Listening

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Exercise
  • New
  • Insecurity

• 'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Bad
  • Society
  • Wealth

• When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Just
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• The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Way
  • Never
  • Writer

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Become

• I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Believe

• The first perk of theater is the girls.

  

  James Spader

• When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'

  

  Franz Wright
  • Up
  • School
  • Reading

• By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Attention
  • Enemy

• So, actions were still being actioned and me and Guleed were actioning them, and the wheels of justice ground on. Albeit in first gear.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Justice
  • Actions
  • Gear

• In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Reading
  • Victory
  • Great Men