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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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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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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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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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
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Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.
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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.
