Harry S Truman Quotes
I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.
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I basically grew up in the backwoods.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.
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Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.
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Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.
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Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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We look like we're just crybabies, ... And the world out there is not sympathetic to government scientists who make more money than the vice president of the United States. Let's get real.
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I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.
