Harry S Truman Quotes
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style.
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I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
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My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
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That's why I'm going to kill you and see how Haruhi Suzumiya reacts.
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A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.
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There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
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I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.
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70 percent of Turkeys citizens favored the EU; today it is only 50 percent. If you ask if they want Turkey to become an EU member, 60 to 65 percent still say yes. But if you ask: Do you believe Europe will accept Turkey, 60 percent say no.
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To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
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The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.
