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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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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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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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.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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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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I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.
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There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being offensive in some way.
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
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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.
