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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Flying into a storm, even its outer edges, did not seem like a good idea to me. And this was no ordinary tempest. Everyone on the bridge knew what it was: the Devil's Fist, a near-eternal typhoon that migrated about the North Indian basin year-round. She was infamous, and earned her name by striking airships out of the sky.
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People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.
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Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
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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.
