Harry S Truman Quotes

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

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• Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Plate

• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Friend

• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Mean

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • Media
  • Marketing

• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Reading
  • Hands
  • Early

• You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Woman

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
  • Shallow

• Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.

  

  Laura Dern
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Worry

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Always

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Live
  • Women
  • Internet

• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Done
  • Man

• For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Worked

• Don is interested in real people who are damaged and flawed and not always likable the first minute you meet them, ... Then, getting to know them, you begin to understand them -- that's what he's interested in, and so am I.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • People
  • Real
  • Understand

• I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.

  

  William J. Duiker
  • Political
  • Military
  • Victory

• I think the Russians need to think more carefully about the commitment they made under the chemical weapons agreements to be the guarantor that these weapons would be seized, they would be removed, they would be destroyed. And since they are Bashar al-Assad's ally, they would have the closest insight as to the compliance.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • Commitment
  • Insight

• And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Government
  • Design
  • End

• Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Control
  • Government
  • Sarah

• When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Government
  • Dictatorship