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, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those...everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.
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The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
