Walt Whitman Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.
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We are one another's strength.
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The Vine had struck a fibre: which about If clings my being - let the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.
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The world in all doth but two nations bear —The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
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βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ μέγαςβέβηκεν.
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If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.
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Money and friendship bribe justice.Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.
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Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
