Olivia Wilde Quotes
Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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No two wars are identical.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
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I am all for stem cell research.
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
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The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
