Mary Oliver Quotes
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a perfect union.
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The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.
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When I grew up, we didn't even talk about being gay. I didn't even hear the word lesbian when I was little. So to me, that's such huge progress to see everyone wanting to be on the right side of transgender history.
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That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
