Harry S Truman Quotes
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
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Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.
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As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
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Books are humanity in print.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
