Mary Oliver Quotes
Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.
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My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
