Walt Whitman Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
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My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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The real war will never get in the books.
