Olympia Dukakis Quotes
You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I hope very much this event, the death of Milosevic will help Serbia to look definitely to the future.
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Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
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My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he played a skin diver. And he was so into that role that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.
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When there's no one else look inside yourself -- like your oldest friend -- just trust the voice within -- then you'll find the strength that will guide your way. You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within.
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Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
