Walt Whitman Quotes
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.
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Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
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Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
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My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
