S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
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I hate sport. I like girlie things.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
