Walt Whitman Quotes
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
