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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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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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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Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.
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I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.
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Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
