Walt Whitman Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
