Harry S Truman Quotes
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S Truman
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Nancy Gibbs
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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.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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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.
Dan Phillips
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
Vicente Fox
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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.
Zoe Wanamaker
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
Haley Joel Osment
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When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
Karen Salmansohn
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I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.
Jennifer Egan
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For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.
Elizabeth Price
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
Dean Inge
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I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
Stevie Wonder
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S Truman