Mary Oliver Quotes
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I always played to win.
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
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I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
