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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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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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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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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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.
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When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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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.
