Olivia Wilde Quotes
I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I am a Buddhist.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I've been things and seen places.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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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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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Veterans are one area where Republicans and Democrats have made progress together.
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I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
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I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.
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Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.
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As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
