Alan Oliveira Quotes

People used to name me the Brazilian Pistorius. Thank God I'm not the Brazilian Pistorius any more. I'm Alan.

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• I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • American
  • Guy

• In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • You
  • Stress
  • Adapt

• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • People
  • Deep
  • Acting

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Career
  • Control

• If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Career

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
  • Mean
  • Person

• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Been
  • University

• If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Numbers

• When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Play
  • Fascinated

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Time
  • Done
  • Night

• I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Please repeat: influence is not popularity.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Influence

• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Stories
  • Emotion
  • Conversation

• Fashion anticipates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Fashion

• People used to name me the Brazilian Pistorius. Thank God I'm not the Brazilian Pistorius any more. I'm Alan.

  

  Alan Oliveira
  • People
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