Mary Oliver Quotes
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I always played to win.
Hansie Cronje -
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
Gabriella Wilde -
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.
Tavi Gevinson -
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Ted Nugent -
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.
Harold H. Greene -
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
Orhan Pamuk -
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.
Oliver Sim The xx -
When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
Beau Mirchoff -
I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
Cara Delevingne
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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.
Ramana Maharshi -
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.
Kate del Castillo -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Rand Beers -
I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
J. J. Watt -
I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
M.I.A.
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I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.
Jack Lemmon -
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
Ed Koch -
If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
David E. Kelley -
I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.
Antonya Nelson -
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
Mack McLarty -
My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
Mary Oliver