Walt Whitman Quotes
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz -
One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
Nate Berkus -
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
J. B. Pritzker -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Maeve Binchy -
The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
Kapil Sibal -
I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
Laetitia Casta -
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
Gary McCord -
What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
Ze Frank -
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
Vera Wang -
Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
Zach Anner -
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
Olympia Dukakis -
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy -
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
Malorie Blackman
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
Carine Roitfeld -
You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.
Owen Hart -
Everybody who goes through the business will make mistakes. The big question is how big will the mistakes be? How fast will they learn from the mistakes, and how quickly will they get the business in the correct direction?
Fred DeLuca -
The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.
Daniel H. Wilson -
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman