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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Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.
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Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
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It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
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Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
