Walt Whitman Quotes
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.
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Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.
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There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
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Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.
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All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.
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People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
