Olivia Wilde Quotes

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

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• I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Different
  • Women
  • You

• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Always
  • Poverty
  • Horror

• There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • House
  • To Do
  • Corner

• The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Creation
  • Forests
  • Acorn

• I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Think
  • Imagination

• I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Sound
  • Stone

• We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Vices
  • Our
  • Ladder

• Everybody has their struggles.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Everybody
  • Struggles

• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Up
  • Beginning
  • End

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sister

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Great
  • Lyrics
  • Just

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Important
  • War
  • Man

• Say not, 'I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have found the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Soul
  • Path
  • Walking

• I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Business

• I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Want
  • Expectations

• After the Olympics and being on such a high and then losing in the World Championships, I was distraught. But now, looking back on it, I think it was the biggest blessing. I was going into every fight thinking I have to win because I am Olympic champion and putting too much pressure on myself. I lost my hunger and stopped enjoying my taekwondo.

  

  Jade Jones
  • World
  • Thinking
  • High

• Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Jesus

• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pain
  • Now
  • Doctor