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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Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause.
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Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.
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If nature offers no home, then we must make a home one way or another. The only question is how.
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I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
