Walt Whitman Quotes
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.
Quotes to Explore
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
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There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
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We just got whipped from the beginning of the game to the end. They were making shots, they executed well both offensively and defensively. They just played real well tonight.
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I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.
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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.
