Walt Whitman Quotes

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

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• I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Believe
  • More
  • Would

• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Integrity
  • The Right Thing

• 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.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Helping
  • Doors
  • Opening

• 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.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• 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.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Discount

• 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.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Education
  • Progress
  • Better

• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Man
  • Wine

• 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.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Nature
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Art
  • Car

• It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Three

• There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Loved

• 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.'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Friends
  • American
  • College

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • War
  • Movies
  • Example

• Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Life
  • Church
  • My Life

• I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.

  

  Richard Parsons
  • Together
  • Everybody
  • Middle

• We studied a mosque, and this is when we were at Notre Dame, and in this mosque they had people from a variety of countries, most of them immigrants. In some of the countries, when you go into a mosque you remove your shoes. To not do so could be punishable even by death in that nation. In other countries, it would be a great offense to remove their shoes when they come into the mosque, a sign of disrespect.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Nation
  • Countries
  • Immigrants

• Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not from their wisdom; their weakness is what fills us with apprehension, not their strength.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Wisdom
  • Danger
  • Enemies

• An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Individual
  • Nation
  • Qualities