Alexander Payne Quotes

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

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• Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Time
  • Age
  • Interesting

• While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Age
  • Cancer

• Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Age
  • Never
  • Talent

• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Age
  • Own
  • Middle

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

  

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

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• 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

• I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Age
  • Mom
  • Old

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• 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

• Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Age
  • Myself
  • Athlete

• 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

• I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Time
  • Men
  • War

• Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.

  

  Mirriam Johnson
  • Great
  • Mother

• I really liked punk music and experimental music that my brother was taking me to go see in the city, when I was probably, like, 13 years old. I was seeing a lot of teenagers making 'weird' music, and I think that was probably a big part of the reason that I actually started to play myself.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Music
  • City
  • Brother

• We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

  

  James Thurber
  • Long
  • Death

• You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Age