Mary Oliver Quotes
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.
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I tend to go to the piano more because it is a very sexual instrument that reveals more sides of myself, but sometimes guitar for a certain song is the only instrument I could imagine using. Piano is very comforting to me, I’m never annoyed by it.
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I would love to do espionage like 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' that kind of thing. And I've always had a fascination with madams. It's interesting to me what that institution is like, how those women are.
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Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
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What men build, in the name of security, is built of straw.
