Walt Whitman Quotes
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.
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To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
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If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
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Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business of committee meetings and PR releases; you might as well storm a butterfly den with a klieg light.
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A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.
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I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.
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The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
