S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.
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It's very difficult for me to look at politics with clear eyes. I'll read a story in the paper and the first thing that pops into my head is, what would my dad say about that? Then I try to break out of that and think, 'What would Said say about that,' and then it gets complicated.
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I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.
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Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
