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.

Merlin Olsen

• Success
• Perseverance
• Stubborn
• Willingness

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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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• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  

  Dan Quayle
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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.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Great
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• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

  

  Narendra Modi
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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.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
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  • Earth

• During one scene, I had to do a shooting drill. He put a psychological spin on it.

  

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• I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
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• In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
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• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
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  • Fall

• Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.

  

  Emmy Rossum
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• Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
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• We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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  • Unchangeable

• Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Parents
  • Sleep

• Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you'll feel a new lightness and more joy.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Free

• Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Power
  • War
  • Galaxy

• Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.

  

  Merlin Olsen
  • Success
  • Perseverance
  • Stubborn