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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I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.
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I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.
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In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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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?
