Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

Elizabeth Olsen

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• I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Communism

• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Long
  • Real

• The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • High
  • Daily
  • Paper

• I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Past

• I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • London
  • Street
  • Bond

• The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Hair
  • Lazy
  • Washing

• We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Wrong
  • Class
  • Israel

• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I am the Attributeless, Absolute, Nirguna. I have no name, no residence.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Name
  • Absolute
  • Residence

• Many people know how to get money, but few know how to keep it. Wise investments are always based on information, Johannes, so the more you know, the better.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • People
  • Money
  • Wise

• When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'

  

  Angus King
  • People

• But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• Concordia discors.

  

  Lucan

• Be lazy, go crazy.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Crazy
  • Lazy

• Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Long
  • Eyes
  • Couple

• There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Like
  • Step
  • Rome

• You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Believe
  • Work Hard
  • Have Faith

• I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen