Harry S Truman Quotes
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'
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The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.
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Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
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I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.
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I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.
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You hope, when you're working on these things, that people love them whether it makes a lot of money or not.
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If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
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At my school, Shakespeare wasn't on the syllabus - at least not for me.
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I’ve been in the entertainment industry ever since, in one capacity or another. It’s better than the Inquisition. Usually.
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.
