Age Quotes
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In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
Diane Ackerman
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The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner
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This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
William Wells Brown
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I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age.
Holly Hunter
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I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.
Quentin S. Crisp
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Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
Cynthia Kenyon
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Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
Boy George Culture Club
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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
Peter Ustinov
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I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.
Megan Abbott
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One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.
Nan Goldin
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I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.
Zachary Quinto
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When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.
Carol Leifer
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I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.
Ian Bremmer
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When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
Charles Dance
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The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.
Lysander Spooner
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Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
Andrew O'Hagan
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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
Jean Paul
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The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.
Saoirse Ronan
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Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.
Michael D. Higgins
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Age merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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We haven't lost romance in the digital age, but we may be neglecting it. In doing so, antiquated art forms are taking on new importance. The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will.
Ashton Kutcher
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The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
William Graham Sumner
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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
Ernest Hemingway