Walt Whitman Quotes
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Quotes to Explore
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
