Mary Oliver Quotes
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Mary Oliver
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
J. Cole
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
Pankaj Mishra
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
Madeleine Albright
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven
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I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.
Pink
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The future will bring new possibilities and ideas - and new terms for them.
Jenna Wortham
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The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?
Alexander Berkman
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Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.
Imelda Marcos
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I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Mary Oliver