Mary Oliver Quotes
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I am a citizen of the world.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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Movies don't have borders.
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President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.
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I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.
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Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!
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...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
