S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

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• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • World
  • She
  • Feel

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Mobile Phones

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Really

• It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Year

• I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • World
  • Movie
  • Proud

• Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Future
  • Powerful

• Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Silly

• What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • People
  • Man
  • Investment

• When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • World
  • Growth
  • Own

• When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Perspective

• I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Writing
  • High

• The less people know about 'Paranormal Activity,' the more they enjoy it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Experience
  • Fight
  • Boxing

• Most of the wrestling happens in the South, so I had to ask myself how I was going to be received as a Jewish boy named Goldberg. Then again, I have never, nor would I ever, hide my Jewish identity.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Boy
  • Identity
  • Wrestling

• I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Life
  • Work
  • Path

• The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Cat

• Sometimes me think, 'What is friend?' Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Thinking
  • Friend
  • Sometimes

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe