Mary Oliver Quotes
If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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The devil made me do it.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I love books.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
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My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'
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Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.
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Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.
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I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.
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If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.
