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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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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My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
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My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.
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We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.
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How old the world is! I walk between two eternities... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!
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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.
