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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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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I try to be myself without being anything different.
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The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.
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No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation
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The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.
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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.
