S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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You might as well acknowledge what came before, because you can never do something wholly new. It's not unoriginal to make your references clear.
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A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
