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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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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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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I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.
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After logic we must proceed to philosophy proper. Here too we have to learn from our predecessors, just as in mathematics and law. Thus it is wrong to forbid the study of ancient philosophy. Harm from it is accidental, like harm from taking medicine, drinking water, or studying law.
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The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
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Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
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Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
