Mary Oliver Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.
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To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.
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Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.
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People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
