Walt Whitman Quotes
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
Rachel McAdams
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
Cam Gigandet
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
Karyn Parsons
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
B. B. King
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
Harry Browne
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I've had a few ditty hits.
Carlene Carter
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
Abraham Verghese
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
Caio Fonseca
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
Yuri Lowenthal
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
E. W. Howe
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Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.
Paige Craig
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
Oscar Hijuelos
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Calvin Trillin
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
Cal Thomas
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
Larry Wall
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Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.
Edward Abbey
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I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.
Chris Pratt
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Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.
C. D. Darlington
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
Balthazar Getty
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If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.
Brandon Victor Dixon
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Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
Walt Whitman