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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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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Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
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I have lived
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
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I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart.
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
