Harry S Truman Quotes
The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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Hopefully, more and more people will begin to feel their story is somehow part of this larger story of how we're going to reshape America in a way that is less mean-spirited and more generous.
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
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To many, perhaps to most people outside the small company of the great scholars, past and present, 'Celtic' of any sort is, nonetheless, a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. … Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.
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Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.
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I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
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Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.
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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
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I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.
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We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.
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When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
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For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
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The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.
