S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.S. Jay Olshansky
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
Maajid Nawaz -
When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
Carine Roitfeld -
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
Nadine Velazquez -
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson -
Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
Famke Janssen
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
Aaron Tveit -
Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
Ted Yoho -
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta -
I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Jack Benny -
When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
Action Bronson
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
G. Willow Wilson -
Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
Hans Hofmann -
My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
Kate Bush -
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
Felicity Jones
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
Francesco Totti -
Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.
Tabare Vazquez -
I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.
Ken Livingstone -
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
Barbara Deming -
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell -
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
S. Jay Olshansky