S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say taking penalties is easy, but when you're stood over one, that's not the case. It's in no way easy. The goal really does become a lot smaller.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
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Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
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The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
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Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
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Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.
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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
