Mary Oliver Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero -
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum -
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder -
I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
D. B. Sweeney -
Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
Samuel L. Jackson -
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
Salma Hayek -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
Natalie Martinez -
The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
Harrison Ford -
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
Barry Ritholtz
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
Ralph W. Sockman -
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
Patricia Polacco -
I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
Jacob Artist -
My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
Dan Jenkins -
Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.
Tahar Rahim -
I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
Randi Weingarten
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My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
Kenneth Frazier -
All I ever wanted to do was act. And pay my bills
Edie Falco -
I am not a fan of politics.
Chris Kyle -
My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.
Joe Greene -
In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.
Kabir Sehgal -
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver