Olivia Wilde Quotes
I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. 'Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's 'Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles.' Then in the end, it's like 'Oh, sod off with the Beatles,' you know?
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I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.
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If you look at why people become wack as they get older, it's because they stop doing the things they did that were formative to their work. You can't mentally stay still. You can't not challenge yourself.
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I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.
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Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
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I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.
