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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I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.
Lisa Unger -
Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails -
If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.
Nelson Peltz -
I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.
Alicia Keys -
Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority. I think it would be patronizing to say that the majorities of people in Florida and Ohio, smaller majorities in Wisconsin and Michigan, that they voted for him because they were misled by something on Facebook.
Brad Stone -
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver