Merlin Olsen Quotes

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Merlin Olsen

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• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Professional
  • Successful
  • Economists

• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Life
  • Alcohol
  • Marijuana

• The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • World
  • Run
  • Strategy

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Lying

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Memory

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • Culture
  • Relationship
  • West

• I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Women
  • War
  • Democrats

• I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Saying

• But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Money
  • Decisions
  • How

• I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • School
  • Why
  • Home

• My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Day
  • Sound
  • Engagement

• In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. ... What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. ... the opposition to man's true nature as man.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Music
  • Art
  • True

• I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Together

• If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Simple
  • Yourself

• In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Love
  • Why
  • Book

• If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Road
  • Travel

• When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

  

  Derek Luke
  • Heart
  • Why

• Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

  

  Merlin Olsen
  • Simple
  • Complicated
  • Humiliation