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 -
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Babasaheb -
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 -
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
Jack Herer -
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 -
This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
Vicky Hartzler
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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 -
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam -
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 -
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 -
The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
Wang Leehom -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
Bob Dylan
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We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.
Andy Hobsbawm -
A man was desired to rise from bed, because the sun was already risen. To which he replied: 'If I had as far to go, and as much to do as he has, I should be risen by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not rise yet.'
Leonardo da Vinci -
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
Philip Warren Anderson -
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
Euripides -
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
Mac Thornberry -
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