Mary Oliver Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling -
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.
Camryn Manheim -
I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
Vanessa Marano -
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.
Imelda Marcos -
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.
Victoria Principal -
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.
Patricia Sun
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
Zach Anner -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
Wendelin Van Draanen -
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.
Mandy Moore -
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
Adam Driver -
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul -
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba -
Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
Nathaniel Philbrick -
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.
Zack Wheat -
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
Sami Gayle
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For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.
Enda Kenny -
Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
Imtiaz Ali -
Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as I like comics, but I'm not rushing to pay out for a cheap hybrid of the two.
Dave Morris -
Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.
Bernard Holland -
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.
Mary Oliver