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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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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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.
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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.
