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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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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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 never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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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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Trump is the only hope to defeat the Kingmakers. Because everybody else will fall in line. The Kingmakers have so much money behind them.
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I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.
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There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
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I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
