Mary Oliver Quotes
It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.
Quotes to Explore
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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The Olympics are an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.
