Walt Whitman Quotes
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out traveled road.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you've got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it's worth it.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.
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I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
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Study Herod, madame, study Herod.
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
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No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
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As president, Trump does and says outrageous and false things every week, from ordering arbitrary travel bans to accusing President Obama of illegal wiretapping with no evidence.
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During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
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For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.
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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out traveled road.
