Walt Whitman Quotes
I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
Quotes to Explore
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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I just can't read music.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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Consider why the quality of school dinners is declining, even as more and more golf courses are opened.
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Sic quisque pavendodat vires famae, nulloque auctore malorumquae finxere timent.
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People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
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I love who I am. I love what I've become.
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I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.
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I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.
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I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
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Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
