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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Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.
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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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I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
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He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - 'just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917'.
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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.
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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.
