Olin Quotes & Sayings

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well. — Lena Olin

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. — Olin Miller

A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings. — Olin Miller

I gave them my best Obi-Wan Kanobi, a heavy, calm confidence, willing them towards the conclusion that we didn't have any droids on us. — Sean Olin

The Kochs were unusually single-minded, but they were not alone. They were among a small, rarefied group of hugely wealthy, archconservative families that for decades poured money, often with little public disclosure, into influencing how Americans thought and voted. Their efforts began in earnest in the second half of the twentieth century. In addition to the Kochs, this group included Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking and Gulf Oil fortunes; Harry and Lynde Bradley, midwesterners enriched by defense contracts; John M. Olin, a chemical and munitions company titan; the Coors brewing family of Colorado; and the DeVos family if Michigan, founders of the Amway marketing empire. Each was different, but together they formed a new generation of philanthropist, bent on using billions if dollars from their private foundations to alter the direction of American politics. — Jane Mayer

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy. — Lena Olin

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to. — Lena Olin

Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant. — Deb Olin Unferth

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself. — Lena Olin

We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. — Olin Miller

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. — Olin Miller

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. — Olin Miller

. . . take cover North America, I am attracted to someone. — Jeni Olin

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. — Olin Miller

Acting is a very strange job. — Lena Olin

It takes bravery to care for someone - no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous. — Deb Olin Unferth

You should not forget that without all the work in law and economics, a great part of which has been supported by the John M. Olin Foundation, it is doubtful whether the importance of my work would have been recognized. — Ronald Coase

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced. — Lasse Hallstrom

In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else. — Lena Olin

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do. — Lena Olin

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend. — Lena Olin

Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not. — Erik Olin Wright

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.' — Lena Olin

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away. — Lena Olin

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's. — Olin Miller

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?' — Lena Olin

It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about. — Lena Olin

You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want. — Deb Olin Unferth

Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain Bailey, and Lieutenant Olin, and lately sitting in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Friday the nineteenth day of December, instant, the following names, to wit ... — Abraham Lincoln

Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can't. Because we don't really believe we can die. — Deb Olin Unferth

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again. — Lasse Hallstrom

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. — Olin Miller

I consume music the way other people consume movies. — Lena Olin

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date. — Olin Miller

I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that. — Lena Olin

To graduate, Miller added, all Olin students "must complete a yearlong engineering design project in small teams with a corporate sponsor that provides financial support for each project. The projects require a corporate liaison engineer and often involve nondisclosure agreements and new product development." Olin — Thomas L. Friedman

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. — Olin Miller

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food. — Wilbur Olin Atwater

I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed. — Lena Olin

There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America. — Lena Olin

It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse. — Wilbur Olin Atwater

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them. — Olin Miller