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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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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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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'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.
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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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The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
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The most important thing is that, when you work with somebody, you build a rapport with that person. They have a certain trust in you. You don't have to explain that much. It's very hard when you photograph someone who's a fresh face and then you don't work with them again for six months. All these people I work with over and over again have qualities that I love. There's something very free about them or there are some slight imperfections about them. I think the more you work with someone, the pictures get better and better.
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I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.
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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.
