Harry S Truman Quotes
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Quotes to Explore
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
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Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
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I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
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I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
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This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.
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Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
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There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.
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We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
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It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
