Walt Whitman Quotes
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
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Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.
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You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
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Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.
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Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
