Margaret Truman Quotes
The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
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But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.
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The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.
