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S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

S. Jay Olshansky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 22, 1954

Topics

Change Relationship Food Childhood

Certainly, we need to support the communities around the country, and we do.

Jim Walsh

Support Country Need Around

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

Meryl Streep

Grace Grit First Anything Take Does

I know so many acting careers that are deliberately kickstarted by a publicist placing a bit of rubbish in a newspaper. And I don't want that. If someone recognises me, I want it to be because they've seen me in something, not because they have seen me at something.

Sophia Myles

Me Someone Acting Know Want Seen

No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous.

Sonia Sotomayor

I Am Violence I Can Matter Lead How

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

Tony Judt

People World Think Edge Know Young

What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?

Mary Gaitskill

Love Lie Night Someone You Feelings

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

Life Poetry Advertising America Copy

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

Josh McDermitt

Yourself Stand Up Stand You Up Just

Real life is difficult - some people find that hard to process.

Jonathan Anderson

Life People Process Find Difficult

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

Desmond Tutu

Wish I Wish Shut Up Up Shut Could

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

Diablo Cody

Sweet Dare Say Fabulous High Little

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Brian Eno

Democracy Easy Disappear Actually