Olivia Wilde Quotes
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
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I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
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You still waste time with those things, Lenù? We are flying over a ball of fire. The part that has cooled floats on lava. On that part we construct buildings, the bridges, and the streets, and every so often the lava comes out of Vesuvius or causes an earthquake that destroys everything. There are microbes everywhere that make us sick and die. There are wars. There is a poverty that makes us cruel. Every second something might happen that will cause you such suffering that you'll never have enough tears. And what are you doing? A theology course in which you struggle to understand what the Holy Spirit is? Forget it, it was the Devil who invented the world, not the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
