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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You can stroke people with words.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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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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The thing I take great comfort in and what I think is cool about the process is that I know in my heart that I gave it everything I had back then. That helps me sleep at night. I still feel proud and happy.
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The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.
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A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
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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.
