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 loved 'Game Of Thrones.'
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Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.
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Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
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I feel that my ideas of beauty have been given very strong backing by Botticelli and a few others: Slender hands, long neck, long limbs - look at Nefertiti. She was very teensy-weensy with a long neck and wide-spaced eyes.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
