Mary Oliver Quotes
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
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Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer
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Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.
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'We are tempted so that we may pray the more. Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit.'
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I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
