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• I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Age
  • Started
  • Menopause

• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Matter

• Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Women
  • Age
  • Discrimination

• Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • You
  • Politics

• Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Work
  • Age
  • Justice

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Age
  • Know
  • Daughter

• A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Home
  • Age
  • Feeling

• I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • You
  • Government
  • Privilege

• 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
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Respect

• Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Age
  • Body
  • Civilization

• I just wanna make music that people love. If they love the next project that I put out, 'Thank you' because that means that I can take care of my family.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• I think about nothing but business the whole time. Even when I go out to my after-parties, people are like, 'You're drinking water?' I'm like, 'Yeah I am.'

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Moral

• To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Independence

• Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • Up
  • Great
  • Strong

• The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

  

  Dave Barry
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