Mary Oliver Quotes
I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
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Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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There's milk-and-cookies Grandma, and there's Colt 45 and Atlantic City Grandma. She was the latter.
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It's a different world.
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To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
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'To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.'
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The whole world tried to reproduce the Weber experiments.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
