Olivia Thirlby Quotes
I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Katha Pollitt
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
Randy Forbes
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Hannah Arendt
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
Fedor Emelianenko
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
Patricia Hewitt
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
Karl Schroeder
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I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
J. J. Watt
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
Uwe Boll
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
Natasha Henstridge
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
J. Paul Getty
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
Adam Jones
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
Jack Ma
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America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.
Marlene Dietrich
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
Carine Roitfeld
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Camille Paglia
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby