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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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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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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The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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I think we all have different ways with coming to terms with celebrity if you're raised within it. Everyone goes through it differently, and there's no one right answer.
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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!
