Mary Oliver Quotes
I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
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You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I was an English major in college!
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
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I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.
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Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.
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I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.
