Merlin Olsen Quotes
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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.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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.
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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.'
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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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.
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No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
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Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
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By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.
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I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
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Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.
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My father was very sick around the time I was born. The doctors thought he wouldn't live. He did recover, but I don't remember him as very active. I do remember lots of schtick around the dinner table. Generally, he and my brothers and I were all laughing at the same thing my mother did not find funny, whatever that was.
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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
