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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Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.
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When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
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The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
