S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.

S. Jay Olshansky

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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

John Dryden

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People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Maynard James Keenan

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A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

Max Lucado

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'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

John Lahr

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The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

John Thorn

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There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Amity Shlaes

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In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Suge Knight

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Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.

Shonda Rhimes

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With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.

Ronald D. Moore

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In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

Mary-Louise Parker

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The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence.

Martin Rees

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We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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