Olivia Wilde Quotes

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

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I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Jimmy Carter

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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

John Cheever

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The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

Matthew Yglesias

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I want to be one of the wrestlers that actually gave back, that actually cared about the industry. That's very important to me.

Matt Hardy

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I want to study law, become a lawyer, and work in Afghanistan for human rights.

Sonita Alizadeh

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I don't think we're out there aggressively looking for deals. Our strategy is that business follows the creative. We're not out there scouring the marketplace for opportunities.

Troy Carter

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I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Tori Amos

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We agree that Citizens United is a very bad decision. We don't believe outspending your opponent is the way to go, since we don't believe we will ever be outspending our opponents!

Tom Steyer

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What I would tell a kid with ADHD and dyslexia or someone who struggles with anything in life is this: 'When you put your mind to it, you can do anything.'

Michelle Carter

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I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.

Mo Farah

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I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim

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When it's your words, and then you watch it connect with an audience as the artist, I kinda reflect back on the writing process and why those words were important to me. And to watch people sing it back, I mean, that kinda means everything because that's the whole point for me - performance and songwriting - is to connect with people.

Brett Young

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