Olga Kurylenko Quotes
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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There is always pressure in football.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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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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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I look in the mirror, and I don't mind what I see.
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My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
