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Mary Oliver Quotes

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 10, 1935

Topics

Family Childhood Words World Hard

Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.

Sports Luxury You Television More

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Anna Kournikova

Ugly Theatre Feel Look Play Why

There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.

Hope Foolish Something No Hope

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

Me Never Anything Spelling Than

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

Voice Know Sound Own Like Singers

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Work Better Over If I Could OK Some

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

Me New Digging Still Like Bands

In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast.

Early Beast Young Protect Need Foot

I grew up in Oregon, so there was always a lot of that folksy, Bob Marley stuff. There was a mural of Bob Marley on a wall at my high school.

School High School Wall Always High

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne

Education Good Book Table True Hand

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

Saying Feel Attention Country Radio

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Man Speak Think Hypocrisy Liberty

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