Walt Whitman Quotes
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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'Aye. Like knows like, sister'
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Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.
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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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You are my Peter Pan.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
