Mary Oliver Quotes
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
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Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
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If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.
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I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
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I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.
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I think the first duty of society is justice.
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Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.
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My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
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He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
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Look under the 'Love and Friendship' section and see dozens of cards designed for women to send to women, most bashing men, and virtually none saying anything loving about men.
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Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
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A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
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Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.
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I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go.
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
