Mary Oliver Quotes
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I always played to win.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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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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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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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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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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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.
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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 Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?
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My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
