S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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This gold medal, to me, is a very good outcome from the many years I've spent on my professional career.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer in, like, Norway is going to put it together.
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.