Walt Whitman Quotes
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
Quotes to Explore
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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In my beginning is my end.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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They always give you three ketchup packets. When you go back up and ask for more, the guy handing them out always treats you like you're taking from his personal stash. "Looks like my kids aren't having ketchup tonight."
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I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
