Walt Whitman Quotes
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
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If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.
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I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.
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Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
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children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
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People who serve you without love get even behind your back.
