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.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
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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.
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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.
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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
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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.
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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.
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I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.
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Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.
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I love small films, and I love films being seen in a theater. I love film, and unfortunately, that's being phased out.
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No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.
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With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.
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I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
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Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself.
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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
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There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.
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A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
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I like meat on my bones.
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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!
