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.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
Adam Lambert -
I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
Imelda May -
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
Barry Sternlicht -
I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami
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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.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
Indra Nooyi -
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
Barton Gellman -
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.
Halsey -
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.
Zoe Foster Blake -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney -
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.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
Movies don't have borders.
Tahar Rahim -
Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
T. J. Miller -
If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
Hamza Yusuf -
I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
Yancy Butler
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter -
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
Bruce Chatwin -
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
Gelila Bekele -
It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
Maelle Gavet -
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Mary Oliver