Harry S Truman Quotes
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever – I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
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Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
