Walt Whitman Quotes
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
Quotes to Explore
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.
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While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary.
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I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.
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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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I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it." I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing."
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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
