Ty Olsson Quotes
I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics - they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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I'm a bit of a goofball; I don't have a lot of censors and I don't have a lot boundaries and I'm trying to remember that the world is watching.
