Harry S Truman Quotes
We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
Quotes to Explore
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During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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Who pleases one against his will.
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The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.
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We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
