Olympia Dukakis Quotes
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.
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Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.
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If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.
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My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.
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The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
