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 feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
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Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.
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I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: 'How are you?' and 'I want to work with Johnny Depp.'
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My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
