S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I don't know what love means.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
