S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
Quotes to Explore
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.
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Sometimes the biggest statements you can make are by living something out.
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The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
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But there is a scary side to acting for me, because I have always wanted to develop rather than plateau out. When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.
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I think I would find being in Hollywood intense if I had more of a social life, but all I do is stay indoors with my sister and play with our puppy, watch movies.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
