Mary Oliver Quotes
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Quotes to Explore
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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It's nice not to have lines when you frown, especially on TV. I don't know why people make such a fuss about it. No one is interested if a woman has her teeth capped or her hair dyed.
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What better way to foray into production than with 'Khaidi No 150.' The film is truly close to my heart because it is my father's 150th film.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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The Walmart was like a starship that had landed in the soybean fields. … They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.
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So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
