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 began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
Walter Dean Myers -
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.
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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 -
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
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There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.
Frank B. Kellogg -
Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
Paul Bremer -
One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.
P. G. Wodehouse -
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
John Calvin -
I love that I can demonstrate that it's OK to look and be strong.
Cynthia Erivo -
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver