S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
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And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
