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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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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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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Friends are flowers in life's garden.
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Fly-fishing is really addictive.
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The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.
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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.
