Harry S Truman Quotes
If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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I think the Creator renews me.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
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We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
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People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
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I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.
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He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.
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A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
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In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.
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Well, it was hard to find anybody, but I called my high school boyfriend and said, 'Can you tell the FBI what I was doing in the summer of '52?' And he said, 'Sure, if you'll remind me.' And I did, and he did, and -- that was fine.
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[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.
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Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies
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Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.
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If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.
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I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".
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I think they (U.S. Congress) hurt our relationships with people that we are trying to get communication and coordination from.
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What we would like to do, ... is go through Congress or the Government Accountability Office and make them set forth some kinds of benchmarks so this isn't open to the Army just writing a perfunctory letter saying we meet all the conditions.
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If I am elected to Congress, I plan to introduce legislation tying Congressional pay to performance.
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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
