S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.
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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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We live too long for one marriage.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.
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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
