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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Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
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Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
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We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.
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So I wanted to write a play that put some thoughts and feelings in the air about the miracle and the mystery and that alluded to deep and unknown forces. But then really just have people going to the store and fixing the sink and going through the normal things of looking for love and getting up in the morning. Because that's how we live.
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You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
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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.
