Age Quotes
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The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
Paul Weller Incognito
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I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.
Xavier Dolan
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Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
Mary-Kate Olsen
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I was in Fort Lauderdale from about age 7 to 14. And that's where I learned the most about music. My favorite DJ was this guy named DJ Laz and the Miami bass guys. I was super into, like, Arthur Baker, that kind of stuff.
Diplo
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In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
Penelope Keith
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I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
Armistead Maupin
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I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
Audra McDonald
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There is a continent - Africa - being consumed by flames. I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not to - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
Bono U2
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Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.
Jarvis Cocker Pulp
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Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
Donald Hall
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At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
Jeremy Irons
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As long as you are curious, you defeat age.
Burt Lancaster
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I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.
Nelson Rockefeller
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I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.
Paolo Nutini
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blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.
Ursula Curtiss
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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
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I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
Christian Louboutin
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Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
H. P. Blavatsky
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Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.
Adrian Peterson
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My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.
Elif Batuman
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
William Styron
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So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
John Gardner
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It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.
Chance The Rapper