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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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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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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When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
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Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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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.
