Merlin Olsen Quotes
Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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As somebody who participates in the overall PC ecosystem, it's totally great when faster wireless networks and standards come out or when graphics get faster. Windows 8 was like this giant sadness. It just hurts everybody in the PC business.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
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The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.
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The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.
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I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
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During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it.
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The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
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I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.
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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
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People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
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I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
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Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
