Johnny Olson (John Leonard Olson) Quotes
It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
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I'm a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.
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I love hats. On tour, it's difficult to stop in at a barber. It's good to have a hat nearby.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
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Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.The orange flower perfumes the bower,The breeze is on the sea.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity – myself especially – are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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People will come back and influence their communities to get excited about space. Space funding will increase because people will see the benefit it has to the way people relate to the world, the way people relate to problems, and the way people view themselves.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.'
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I am extremely pained by the methodology adopted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in coming to some figures which have no basis whatsoever. Their exercise was fraught with very serious errors.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
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It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
