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.
Olympia Dukakis
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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.
Halle Berry
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.
K. D. Lang
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.
Zadie Smith
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin
We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
Federica Mogherini
The backers of Hitler in Germany made the same mistake about the Nazi party that the workers and soldiers in Petrograd made about the Bolshevik party. Each group believed that this new brutal, rabid, monolithic fighting gang, on achieving power, would promote, as had been promised, its enlightened interests.
Max Eastman
I have travelled across the universe through the years to find her. Sometimes going all the way is just a start...
Jim Steinman
I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
Ben Harper
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Olympia Dukakis