Walt Whitman Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
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on the creation myth This is a wonderful story that was told to the people in the desert, in order to distract them from the fact that they did not have air conditioning. I would love to have the faith to believe that it took place in seven days, but... I have thoughts. And that can really fuck up the faith thing. Just ask any Catholic priest.
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What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.
