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S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

S. Jay Olshansky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Die You Find Person Will Things

Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Learning Growing Up Budget Down Know

For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.

John Edgar Wideman

Life Opportunity Culture Day Words

When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.

Mother Myself Simple Airplane Turn

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

Statik Selektah

Me Important Hip-Hop Backbone Very

I've spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there - falling in love, stuff like that.

Life Love Deep My Life Important

Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is like jumping into a river to test its depth - you'll need a lot of luck to stay afloat. To have a truly successful product launch, the conversations with your customers must start long before you write your first line of code.

River Luck Start Long You Know

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Travel Fly Survive Worry Terrorism

Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.

Apollonius of Tyana

Best Man Democracy Eye Worth Things

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Arthur Schopenhauer

Money People Thoughts Win Cards Try

My second 30 is actually very good, where my turnovers are very quick. I just want to put a complete race together, once I get out of my drive phase, I want to hit my next 30 very hard.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Good Together Drive Want Race Hard

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation.

Work Love Transportation Subway Take

Art is an investigation.

Art Investigation

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