Mary Oliver Quotes
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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We have also spoken to the Chinese authorities to act strongly against animal trade and they assured that they would take effective action.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.
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If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
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I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.
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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
