Walt Whitman Quotes
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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I think one of the pitfalls of doing your own music is that sometimes you can never be satisfied with it: you're afraid to say that it's done, and you keep reworking it or re-recording it or re-writing it.
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Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
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O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?
