Walt Whitman Quotes
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.
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You're always allowed to be better.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
