Harry S Truman Quotes
You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
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I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.
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People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
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When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
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Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.
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If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
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It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing to the world. That is why God is needed in intimate relationships, to move us beyond the perceptions that can so often poison love.
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Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
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The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.
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I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
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People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.
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When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.
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You cannot get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on.
