Walt Whitman Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
