Mary Oliver Quotes
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
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Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.
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I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.
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It doesn't make good business sense to stay the same. Girls today have so many different role models they wouldn't stand for it if they only saw the same thing every time they looked at Seventeen .
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
