Ted Olson Quotes
I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
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We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
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"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
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Hank's the most amazing person on the planet, and if it's not him, there's no one else I want to be married to.
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Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
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I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
