Walt Whitman Quotes

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

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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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Democracy
  • Human
  • Moderation

• 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.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• 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.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Health
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Watching
  • Washington

• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Opinions
  • Wait
  • Economists

• 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.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Great
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Writing

• Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• 'Aye. Like knows like, sister'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sister

• Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Son

• 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?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Art
  • German

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May

• I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Writing
  • Figures
  • Manliness

• Making films can be very lonely, and that's the part I don't like. I don't want to feel like I'm pressing 'pause' on my personal life to make a movie. I want to feel like I'm still creating relationships and things are moving forward.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Moving

• We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Real
  • Always

• Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Individual
  • Own
  • Wait

• And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Dime
  • Pocketless