S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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Sometimes there are actions that we are forced to take, but there need to be boundaries beyond which we are going to recognize that we're not going to go because we still are Americans, and we are supposed to be representing something to people in this country and overseas.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
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It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
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God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
