Mary Oliver Quotes
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.
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To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.
