"My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience."

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Source : "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Parent Quotes

“The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”
“You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second devine.”
“Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)
“No team works out teamwork.”
“I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.”
“I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.”
“Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 18, 2011
“I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.”

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