Harry S Truman Quotes

As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.

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• To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Better
  • Common
  • Uncommon

• I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Experience
  • Miss
  • Julie

• There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Listening
  • Period
  • Beauty

• I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

  

  Neko Case
  • Father
  • Christian

• In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

  

  Dennis Cardoza
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Democracy

• Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Place
  • Wikipedia

• Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Body
  • Three
  • Cigarette

• The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Way

• I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Song
  • Magic
  • Records

• I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Parents

• My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, "I was a fan, you changed my life," or whatever. That's what she says.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Thinking
  • Proud
  • My Life

• Dreams are the language your heart speaks to help guide you to your destiny.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Heart
  • Language
  • Dreams

• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Money
  • War
  • Soul

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.

  

  Gavin Friday
  • Older
  • Wearing
  • Funky

• Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Comfortable

• As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.

  

  Harry S Truman
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