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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I'm pretty pleased with my place in the world.
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The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
