S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

S. Jay Olshansky

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• It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Growing
  • Process

• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Character
  • Want
  • Myself

• I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Want

• I'm definitely a foodie.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Definitely

• Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Important
  • Conservation

• Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Years
  • Economics
  • Economists

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Kind

• I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nature

• My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Impossible

• I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Away
  • Seem
  • Resolutions

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.... I've never been involved in Wall Street, I've never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I'd like to have somebody intimately familiar with it.

  

  John McCain
  • Country
  • Book
  • Financial

• I'm accepting I'm not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.

  

  Paula Cole
  • City

• I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • People
  • Pain

• Mangez de la merde.

  

  Pierre Trudeau

• Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Science

• Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Science
  • Goal
  • Aging