Walt Whitman Quotes
Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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My buddies worked with me for weeks, and I went up to take my test, and started crying because I couldn't remember the words. I can remember songs. If you put it to a melody, I would have sung it to 'em in a minute.
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There are a lot of top-notch shows in Canada.
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There won’t be any revolution in America…The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
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There are some days I feel fat. I'm not convinced there's going to be a moment where every woman in the world wakes up and feels like a million dollars. So, what I want to do is give women the tools that will help when those moments come up. Sometimes it can be as easy as telling yourself that you are beautiful.
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Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.
