Alice Oswald Quotes
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other.
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When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.
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The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. Their indifference to us ought to serve as a chastening reminder that we're not the measure of all things.
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So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
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I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.
