Harry S Truman Quotes
He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.
Quotes to Explore
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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I just look at all the fruit and all the people's lives that are being changed and are being touched. And that's what we really focus on because we hear - every day we get mail, we visit with people, and their lives are being changed.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
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I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.
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Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.
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There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.
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My favourite scent... changes every day. I have a cupboard full - so many I can't begin to tell you.
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I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
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You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.
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The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
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I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.
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He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.
