Walt Whitman Quotes
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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Together we are bigger than the sum of our parts.
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If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
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The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.
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I was in a bluegrass band. I made two records with a band called the SteelDrivers. They were nominated for two Grammys. I then I was in a rock band called the Junction Brothers; we made kind of '70s hard rock music.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
