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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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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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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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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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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Sometimes I have a sense of what I'm seeing being a small fraction of what's there. Not always there, but probably more often than I realize. Something will come up, and I'll realize I'm thinking about the world a little differently than my friends.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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If you don’t want your life to be 'messed up', don’t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.
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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?
