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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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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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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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
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Kath Two was Survey. Whether or not this made her military was a topic of almost theological complexity.
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I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.
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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.
