Harry S Truman Quotes
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.
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‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me art. None of my family had ever done that kind of stuff either.
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A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
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It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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I remember there was one summer - I think I was 13 years old - that was literally defined by watching 'Beavis and Butt-head' with my friends.
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We're running the company to serve more people.
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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
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Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
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But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
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I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
