Olympia Dukakis Quotes
I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.
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I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
