Mary Oliver Quotes
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
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I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.
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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
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I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.
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I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
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One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
