Walt Whitman Quotes
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
Quotes to Explore
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
Ralph Norman
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
Wale
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
S. E. Hinton
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard
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We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.
Octavia Spencer
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I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
Xosha Roquemore
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
Gary Ross
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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
Radhanath Swami
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. Hinton
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By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
Samuel Johnson
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If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time ... human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
Alanis Morissette
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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
Anish Kapoor
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All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.
Alexander Skarsgard
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I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
Alexander Wang
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I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.
Cory Gardner
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I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn't even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I'm paying my own bills. I'm about to move my mama in with me at 19. I'm on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.
Kehlani
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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.
Randy Alcorn
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I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.
Gabourey Sidibe
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
Walt Whitman