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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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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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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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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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
