Olympia Dukakis Quotes

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Olympia Dukakis

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• You really are being quite foolish to smoke.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Foolish
  • Smoke

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Live
  • Home
  • Alone

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Men
  • Quotation

• Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • High
  • Water

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• We believe in the vision of 'Make in India,' and our proposed joint venture with Rafael is a step in this direction.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Believe
  • Vision
  • Step

• A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Consequences
  • Cope

• 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.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Serious
  • Name
  • Questions

• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Hate
  • Summer
  • Camping

• 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.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Car
  • London
  • Bank

• A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Technology
  • Crime

• I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general meeting, and when they asked what I was looking for and I told them I'd prefer to do comedy, it was as if I had two heads.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Couple

• Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Believe
  • You
  • Find

• Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Car

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Country

• I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Important
  • Me
  • Sometimes