Merlin Olsen Quotes
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.
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One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
