Mary Oliver Quotes
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
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The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.
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I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.
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I'd rather write about polar bears than people.
