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.
Mary Oliver
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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?
Rainbow Rowell
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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.
Larry King
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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.
Fetty Wap
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I'm an honest, open father.
T.I.
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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.
Ramsey Clark
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jack Nicklaus
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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.'
Haile Gebrselassie
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
Victoria Pendleton
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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!
Fidel Castro
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
Tariq Ali
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.
Halle Berry
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
Malala Yousafzai
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I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.
Janet Fitch
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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.
Mary Oliver
