Harry S Truman Quotes
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.
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I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.
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I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
