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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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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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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I don't like inherited wealth.
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Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
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I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
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When I'm told absolutely no, it's a definite maybe.
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I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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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.
