Harry S Truman Quotes

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Harry S Truman

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972

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Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.

Jeh Johnson

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Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

Robbie Williams

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Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

Mike White

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If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Michael Porter

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Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

DeForest Soaries

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I would love to take a crack at 'Long Day's Journey Into Night.'

Courtney B. Vance

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I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world.

Brandon T. Jackson

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I think I'm going to pull a Charlie Chaplin and have kids when I'm 60.

Bronson Pinchot

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My 20s were really tough, just traveling and living in different countries, and now I feel like I know what I want from life.

Ali Krieger

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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Winnie Byanyima

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The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

Phil Ramone

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