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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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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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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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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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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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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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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Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
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I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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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.
