Walt Whitman Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
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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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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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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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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.
