Walt Whitman Quotes
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Quotes to Explore
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I think of OkCupid as an online bar; a place where singles can go, have fun with each other and in the process hopefully meet new people, some of whom might turn into a romantic relationship.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know why he wouldn't release his records.
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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.
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I cannot say where you are. Unreachableby prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeablein the air, even if souls are stars.
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Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
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Whatever the other failures of the U.S. government were, it had managed to print an excess of dollars which, combined with the collapse of trade and communication, had severely eroded the currency's value.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
