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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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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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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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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Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.
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A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
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I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community. There's something sort of spiritual about it in a lot of ways. It's like we're all doing this together.
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'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.
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A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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Be the chief but never the lord.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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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.
