S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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Movies don't have borders.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
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Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
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If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
