Harry S Truman Quotes
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
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It's nice when little teams win.
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Long live jihad and long live Palestine.
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What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.
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Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
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The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.
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The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.
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Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
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I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.
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Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
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If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
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It's so special to meet people after the show, getting that connection during the actual concert. It creates a stronger bond.
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I was a militant.
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Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.
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I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'
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All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
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I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.
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When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
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I was huge fan of most of the animated series growing up in the golden era of '90s superhero animation. I didn't care who was producing - it was much more about the specific heroes that I connected with.
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If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
