Olivia Williams Quotes
The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
Olivia Williams
Quotes to Explore
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
Gail Simmons
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Natalie Cole
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
R. Kelly
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
Octavia E. Butler
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
Barry Eisler
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
Walter Kirn
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
Gail Collins
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
Kacy Hill
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
Salman Rushdie
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
Frances Beinecke
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
Fareed Zakaria
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He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.
Max Stirner
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Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
Aziz Ansari
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People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
Michael Jackson
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The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
Olivia Williams
