age

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘age’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked. – Len Wein

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  • Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. – Thomas Moore

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  • In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. – James Dyson

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  • The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. – J. G. Ballard

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  • My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. – Kyle Chandler

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  • At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. – Naguib Mahfouz

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  • A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. – Robertson Davies

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  • When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you’ve got an adolescent boy, you’re in the sweet spot for trouble. – Jeffrey Kluger

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  • It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others. – Maggie Smith

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  • In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you’re on ‘The Golden Girls.’ They age you so fast. – Gabrielle Union

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  • A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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  • I can’t get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds. – Vera Farmiga

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  • I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my age, but they were doing it. – Eddie Vedder

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  • By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn’t a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. – Janet Jackson

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  • I began to speak well at a very advanced age – 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. – Roberto Cavalli

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  • Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. – Theodore Bikel

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  • I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? – George Michael

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  • I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. – Blanche Lincoln

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  • At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did. – Puff Daddy

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  • Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. – Irvin S. Cobb

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  • Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. – A. N. Wilson

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  • I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely. – Camille Pissarro

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  • The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old. – Rosalyn S. Yalow

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  • The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months. – Giacomo Casanova

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  • We are in an electronic technology age now and it’s about time we put away the old stuff. – Monica Edwards

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  • At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford! – Carlos Ghosn

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  • At my age, I don’t think anyone is untouched by cancer. – Bryan Cranston

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  • My habit would have been to veer towards the dark – to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that’s true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can…

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  • It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces. – Rem Koolhaas

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  • I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin. – Zoe Saldana

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  • You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. – Al Pacino

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  • The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year. – Jane Fonda

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  • I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas. – Saul Williams

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  • I definitely don’t look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. – Elijah Wood

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  • The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I’m 19? – Fiona Apple

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  • Pretend to be dumb, that’s the only way to reach old age. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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  • Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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  • Age for me is just a number. – Haile Gebrselassie

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  • You hit a certain age and – especially because of TV – the young cooks coming up say, ‘You’re a sellout, because you’re doing something other than what you should be doing.’ ‘Top Chef’ is a double-edged sword for me: There’s a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they…

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  • Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. – Maya Lin

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  • From an early age I didn’t buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting. – Adam Clayton

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  • I didn’t have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age. – Adam Carolla

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  • I hate the idea that you shouldn’t wear something just because you’re a certain age. – Miuccia Prada

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  • As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with…

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  • Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. – Clarence Day

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  • To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. – Bernard Baruch

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  • I’ve lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point. – Liz Phair

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  • There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. – Charlie Kaufman

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  • Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy. – Dorothy Thompson

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  • When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn’t just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn’t working – certainly not on anything…

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  • I grew up on the golden age of children’s TV. – Edward Norton

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  • I do wish I could tell you my age but it’s impossible. It keeps changing all the time. – Greer Garson

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  • We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love. – Elton John

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  • When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. – Haruki Murakami

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  • This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that’s what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don’t get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted…

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  • I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy. – Anne Burrell

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  • Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you’re of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not. – Iain Duncan Smith

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  • At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I’m safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too. – Richard Attenborough

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  • What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can’t leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age. – Diane Kruger

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  • I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. – Eddie Van Halen

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  • At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man. – Nicolas Cage

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  • I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I’m naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl…

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  • Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen

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  • The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. – Tom Hanks

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  • I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on. – Lillie Langtry

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  • I love things that age well – things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best. – Giorgio Armani

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  • American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything. – Carrie Underwood

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  • I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her. – Ellie Goulding

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  • I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on…

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  • I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along. – Bruce Springsteen

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  • Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don’t begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten. – Robert. L. Ehrlich

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  • When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing – it was far too much responsibility for someone my age. – Harlan Coben

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  • Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. – Trey Anastasio

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  • We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. – Lawrence Clark Powell

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  • Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it’s more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. – Jonathan Sacks

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  • Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. – Thomas Szasz

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  • I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. – Edward Koch

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  • We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there’s almost a sense of entitlement to that. – J. J. Abrams

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  • It’s the golden age of French cinema again but it’s because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. – Harvey Weinstein

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  • Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. – Russell Baker

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  • The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. – Shimon Peres

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  • One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age – at the age of 38 in fact – he changed course and decided to become a doctor. – Colin Firth

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  • Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. – John Dryden

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  • A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. – Robert Browning

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  • I believe the true function of age is memory. I’m recording as fast as I can. – Rita Mae Brown

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  • So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling. – Gary Oldman

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  • All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world? – James Hillman

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  • The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. – Edmond de Goncourt

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  • There probably aren’t a lot of actors my age who tap dance. – Christopher Walken

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  • I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched. – Bryan Adams

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  • I’m totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that’s the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. – Jason Mraz

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  • It’s the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept… It’s not about age. It’s about taste, and it’s about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything. – Ralph Lauren

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  • The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. – John Jay Chapman

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  • A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. – Jim Bishop

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  • Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. – Gary L. Francione

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  • I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women. – Cate Blanchett

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  • I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. – Magic Johnson

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  • The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: ‘I could’ve been Bond. Buy me a drink.’ That’s the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: ‘I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.’ – Daniel…

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  • There’s a vintage which comes with age and experience. – Jon Bon Jovi

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  • Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. – Christopher Lasch

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  • I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it’s kind of weird, it’s such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it’s a…

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  • There’s a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It’s not easy to get a good job with good actors. – Amanda Peet

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  • A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don’t have the patience to learn. – David Wilkerson

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  • It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. – Vaclav Havel

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  • We tried not to age, but time had its rage. – Patti Smith

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  • Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around. – Denzel Washington

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  • Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. – David Mamet

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  • My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. – Alvin Toffler

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  • There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in…

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  • With the song ‘This Christmas’ I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they’ll be like ‘OK, he did his thing with that…

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  • Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. – Hesiod

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  • I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’ – Cher

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  • It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don’t come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country. – Dixie Lee Ray

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  • No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. – Bruce Barton

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  • People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature. – Daniel Goleman

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  • With age, you get to a place where you don’t want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug. – Vin Diesel

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  • Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind. – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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  • Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. – Navjot Singh Sidhu

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  • You have to be desirable. And that’s why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, ‘Why do women do this?’ Where do you go in your 50s in your career? – Kim Cattrall

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  • It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? – Arthur Miller

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  • At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career. – Lena Dunham

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  • One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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  • There’s also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense. – John Cusack

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  • If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what’s important. – Clive Owen

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  • Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better. – Michelle Malkin

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  • We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

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  • We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it’s not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts. – Spike Lee

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  • I think I’m past the age of getting lost. – Amanda Seyfried

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  • You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you’re in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that. – Salma Hayek

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  • Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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  • I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. – John Mayer

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  • At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. – Flannery O’Connor

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  • Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there’s a gender gap. – Dee Dee Myers

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  • I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. – Brandon Boyd

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  • I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12. – Alexander McQueen

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  • When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job. – Jason…

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  • We have become a society that can’t self-correct, that can’t address its obvious problems, that can’t pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that – for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati –…

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  • In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back. – Brian Clough

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  • Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. – Willa Cather

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  • I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. – Jewel

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  • I don’t believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It’s a mean thing, life. – George Clooney

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  • America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. – Meryl Streep

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  • I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that. – Evel Knievel

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  • I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. – Joni Mitchell

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  • If you’re extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows. – Jeanne Moreau

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  • I think I’m a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It’s not about being shameful, I’m just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear. – Kristen Stewart

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  • For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation’s challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda. – Ron Fournier

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  • I wrote a screenplay for a ‘Sweet Valley High’ adaptation, and it’s really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie. – Diablo Cody

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  • Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. – Thomas Browne

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  • Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you. – Alan Alda

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  • Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. – Marian Wright Edelman

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  • Everyone talks about age, but it’s not about age. It’s about work ethic. Winning never gets old. – Lisa Leslie

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  • Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you’ve got all this great wisdom, you don’t get to be young anymore. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  • Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can’t construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. – John Polkinghorne

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  • I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself. – William J. Clinton

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  • At my age you don’t go into fatherhood lightly. – Rod Stewart

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  • I didn’t know a time when there wasn’t a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. – David Bailey

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  • TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can’t. – Jessica Lange

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  • Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. – Charlotte Bronte

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  • I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal. – Sienna Miller

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  • I want to age with some dignity. – Pete Townshend

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  • This is my 20th year in the sport. I’ve known swimming and that’s it. I don’t want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I’ll be 31. I’m looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence. – Michael Phelps

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  • Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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  • I’d like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that’s basically becoming limited. – Russell Means

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  • There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother’s age. – Benjamin Spock

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  • Although it is generally known, I think it’s about time to announce that I was born at a very early age. – Douglas Horton

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  • I think it’s your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that’s a waste of a lovely life. ‘Oh… I’m 30, oh, I’m 40, oh, 50.’ Make the most of it. – Betty White

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  • What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you’re going to have enormous impact on America, that’s a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age. – Michael Bloomberg

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  • People dance at any age. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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  • I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what ‘pull my finger’ meant the hard way. – Danica McKellar

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  • My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I’m four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are…

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  • I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing ‘chick’ music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It’s part of the cultural dynamic,…

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  • Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. – Don Marquis

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  • Craziest thing I’ve done for love is getting married. I think it’s crazy. I think it’s crazy, crazy, crazy. I’m never going to say I wouldn’t do it again but I have to make sure it’s love and not settling for the ‘I have to do this by a certain age,’ which is kind of…

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  • I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one’s tongue don’t move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole

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  • I’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. – Maria Sharapova

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  • Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. – Phoebe Cary

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  • I’m not busy… a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn’t think my schedule looked so busy. – Garrison Keillor

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  • High expectations weren’t nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children weren’t fawned over from an early age as ‘gifted’ and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. – James Wolcott

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