Walt Whitman Quotes
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
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I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
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There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
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This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
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It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
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Every now and then, you'll get one of those days when you're feeling rubbish or when you have to pretty much drag yourself out of bed to get to training. But then you'll see the Olympic pool, and all the excitement and adrenaline will come rushing back.
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We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
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Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
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One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give.
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Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.
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Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
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O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!
