Age Quotes
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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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The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
Cynthia Kenyon
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The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
Ernest Renan
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Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.
John Madden
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There's a huge shift in the way we connect with people as humans in the technology age versus right before that, when we still had a little bit of mystery.
Phillipa Soo
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Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.
Paul Bloom
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Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.
E. M. Forster
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I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Age should be no consideration between two people romantically or sexually involved. Social approval shouldn't even be considered.
Yvette Mimieux
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Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.
Jenny Lawson
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I feel more mature than most people my age.
Leighton Meester
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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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If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They've picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I've done the same for them.
Katie Lowes
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The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.
Ashleigh Brilliant
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
Viola Davis
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If youth knew; if age could.
Sigmund Freud
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If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
Emma Thompson
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This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.
Elaine Stritch
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
Seneca the Younger
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.
George Washington
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I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.
Jim Cantrell
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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
William O. Douglas
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In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.
Ian McDonald Foreigner