Ken Olsen Quotes
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.
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The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
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Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
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Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
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Why am I seeking logic or sanity here? I'd asked myself at the moment. There hasn’t been any so far.
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.
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I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a certain way, and it takes an imaginative director who will look at you and realize you can play different kinds of parts because you are an actor.
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The way I've always seen it is, I don't want him to do bad. I want him to do good. But when I'm competing with somebody, I want my best to be better than his. That's just how I've been. I'm not wishing bad for anybody.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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Did the rest of the Austrians understand what was happening to the Jews? Did they understand that we were being dispossessed, that we were beginning to go hungry? By way of answer let me tell you a story. Once after the Anschluss, I was stopped by a policeman for jaywalking. He ordered me to pay a stiff fine. "But I am Jewish," I said. That was all he needed to hear to know that I was penniless and could not possibly pay, and he let me go. So you see, when they tell you that they did not realize how the Jews were being despoiled, you must never believe them. They all knew.
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Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.
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The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
