Walt Whitman Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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The Department of Energy is a critical component of our efforts to curtail climate change; that work will be less effective unless we collaboratively rebuild confidence in the agency and its programs.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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You give the money where you want it.
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Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
