Merlin Olsen Quotes

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

Merlin Olsen

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• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Real
  • Help
  • Know

• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Me
  • Start

• If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Powerful
  • Blind
  • Deaf

• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  

  Tablo
  • Feelings
  • Daughter
  • Price

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Real
  • You
  • Day

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Critical

• I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Just

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Great
  • Book
  • Think

• I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Different
  • School
  • Dad

• For Komen, for myself, the mission was always foremost in everyone's mind. The mission and the women that we serve. The only group that made this issue political has been Planned Parenthood.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Political

• I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Understand
  • Ship

• Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Start

• Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Responsibility
  • Enjoy
  • Lose

• No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Changes
  • Been

• Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Life
  • Great
  • Hope

• To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Nature

• Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

  

  Cynthia Weil
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

  

  Merlin Olsen
  • Funny
  • Basketball
  • Swimming