Walt Whitman Quotes
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Novels are longer than life.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
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A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
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I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.
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America is incredibly professional and corporate.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
