Harry S Truman Quotes
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
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Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
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I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.
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Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?
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You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.
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If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-discipline.
