Olga Kurylenko Quotes
All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
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We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.
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The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.
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Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.
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All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
