Susan Olsen (Susan Marie Olsen) Quotes
These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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I don't think limits.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League'; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
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From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
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More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.
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These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.
