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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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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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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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.
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When the sun appears which dispels darkness in general, you put out the light which dispelled it for you in particular for your need and convenience.
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In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.
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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
