Walt Whitman Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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He felt that sense of being necessary which is the burden and reward of parenthood.
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Cubans can be as conversant as any Netflix-and-chill American about popular shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Black Mirror', and they drop allusions to the 'Lannisters' and 'Omar Little' constantly.
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I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.