S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.
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Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I had 'The Flash' Underoos.
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My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.
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People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
