Mary Oliver Quotes
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I love girl power.
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I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
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We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
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I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.
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Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
