Mary Oliver Quotes
I am a performing artist; I perform admiration. Come with me, I want my poems to say. And do the same.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.
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I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
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My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
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Even if I wrote a song about math or animals or whatever, there would still be the question, 'Why did you write about that? And what does it say about you?'
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Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.
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I am a performing artist; I perform admiration. Come with me, I want my poems to say. And do the same.
