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!

Walt Whitman

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• Desires
• Heel
• Imaginings

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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.

  

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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
  • She
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• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• 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
  • Up
  • Water
  • Forever

• 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
  • People
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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
  • Great
  • Children
  • Why

• When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Hate
  • Religion

• I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• 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
  • Free
  • Law
  • Poverty

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Death

• How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?

  

  Alanis Morissette
  • Words

• Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Work
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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
  • Different

• 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
  • Work
  • Team
  • Rest

• Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls. But eventually we learn, and our journey continues in another direction.

  

  Matthew Underwood
  • Path
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• America, you must be born again!

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • America
  • Born

• When you love someone so deeply they become your life,it's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside,blindly I imagined I could keep you under glass,now I understand to hold you I must open my hands, and watch you rise.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Life

• The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Journey
  • Take
  • Internal

• When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really be the force that can make the changes that need to be made.

  

  Ben Cohen
  • Business
  • Interest
  • Force

• 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
  • Truth
  • Desires
  • Heel