Walt Whitman Quotes
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.
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In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
