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 don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
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Peace is an idea born from hope and the desire to see your children raise a family, walk in a market, and engage in simple pleasures of everyday life without fear.
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
