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.
Quotes to Explore
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
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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.
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Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dreams are the language your heart speaks to help guide you to your destiny.
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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.
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There is some research that suggests that viruses like the flu are really actually kind of at the razor's edge when it comes to mutation. They're mutating so fast that if they mutated much faster they would actually develop a lot of harmful mutations that could slow them down and cripple them and eventually literally drive them extinct.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
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Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.
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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.
