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 would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
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I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.
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The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
