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 -
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap -
I'm an honest, open father.
T.I. -
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 -
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 -
I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
Haile Gebrselassie -
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth -
The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
Fidel Castro -
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson -
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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
Fiona Shaw -
What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
Victoria Moran -
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch -
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.
Carice van Houten -
Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.
Iqbal Quadir -
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.
Beau Willimon
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The real world is horrible.
Lev Grossman -
As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
Pete Hegseth -
It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.
Tom Green -
My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
Bobbie Ann Mason -
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
Lewis H. Lapham -
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