Mary Oliver Quotes
Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.
Quotes to Explore
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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Since our inception, Youku Tudou as the leader in the multi-screen video space has helped transform how video and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
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The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell.
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We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.
