Johnny Olson (John Leonard Olson) Quotes
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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I'm shocked at being recognized.
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This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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Before Mint.com, I was a long-time user of 'Microsoft Money' and Intuit's 'Quicken.' Both were powerful tools, loaded with features and functionality around taxes, investment, budgeting - too feature-laden, in fact. They took hours to set up, forever to learn, and an hour a week to maintain.
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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We're gonna give you a great show.
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Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.
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Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.
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You always hear about people going through miscarriages and you never understand what one is like unless you go through it.
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I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
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America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.
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A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.
