Walt Whitman Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
Pat Cadigan -
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
Ed Sheeran -
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Bear Grylls -
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Sam Walton -
I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
Orlando Bloom
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
Wayne Dyer -
Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
Gary Bettman -
There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie -
While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
Patch Adams -
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry Commoner
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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai Lama -
Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
OMI -
Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
Nate Robinson -
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine -
I believe in creative visualization.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
Bat for Lashes -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
Barbra Streisand -
My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.
Wentworth Miller -
Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game.
Wale -
And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!
Lord Byron -
Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.
Walt Whitman