Olympia Dukakis Quotes
I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
-
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
-
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
-
My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
-
One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
-
Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
-
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
-
I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
-
It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
-
I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
-
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
-
I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
-
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
-
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
-
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
-
I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
-
Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
-
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
-
Your circumstance is entirely hypothetical, and I'm quite clear it won't arise.
-
I loved your country [America] before I knew it.
-
English superiority and American obedience.
-
My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.
-
I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
