Walt Whitman Quotes
The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.
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For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
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I always make time for the things that are important to me.
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That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.
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Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.
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But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.
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The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.
