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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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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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 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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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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Too clever is dumb.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
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There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.
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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.
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One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.
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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.
