Harry S Truman Quotes
When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
Quotes to Explore
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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This little bathtub smells like ass.24.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.
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A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.
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If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
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When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
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My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
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One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
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I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
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I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I'll go straight to the core. This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.
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Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I'm a democratic socialist.
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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
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When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
