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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I didn't really enjoy being at college, because I was putting myself through college. We just didn't have the money. I was responsible for that, so I was constantly looking for scholarships, grants, and work-study opportunities.
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I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
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I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.
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I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.
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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.
