Harry S Truman Quotes
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Quotes to Explore
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I am just one human being.
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I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
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I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
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With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.
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'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
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When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.
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Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.
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More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
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I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
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I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.
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I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
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I'd never managed anyone before, so I don't have a lot of experience. But I'm lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.
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Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.
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When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
