S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

S. Jay Olshansky

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SuccessFailureEnoughLongLiving

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

Ann Nocenti

CollegeStoryBackPlaceHospital

The role of a chef isn't to reinvent dishes but to tweak.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

ChefReinventRoleDishesTweak

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

MoneyHomelessTruckBagLivingEat

If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.

Jeanne Shaheen

WomenWorldCareNeedEmpowerAbout

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

John Philip Sousa

MusicMindMeanAverageFalseWould

Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of modern secularism breeding the worst kind.

Steven Crowder

ReligionPeopleMoralitySayKind

I've built my business around the No. 7.

Robby Gordon

BusinessBuiltAround

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Don DeLillo

LifeLiveDeathPainDieWay

Fashion is something that I want to be involved with for a long time, and I want to show that I can give people what they want while still keeping my pizzazz and my razzle-dazzle.

Johnny Weir

TimePeopleFashionLongI CanWant

I would love to return to China one day to make films. I've been away for too long, so I'll need to spend some time back home before I can come up with an idea.

Chloe Zhao

LoveHomeTimeDayLongBack

I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.

Brian Dunkleman

AmericanOutHangingWatchIdol

I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.

Bonnie Wright

TimePeopleStrongNeverAlways

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