Age Quotes
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.
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Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.
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My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
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The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.
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Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.
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I don't have any issues with my age.
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You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
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Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
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What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.
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The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.
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Fear destroys intimacy. It distances us from each other; or makes us cling to each other, which is the death of freedom.... Only love can create intimacy, and freedom too, for when all hearts are one, nothing else has to be one--neither clothes nor age; neither sex nor sexual preference; race nor mind-set.
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Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
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My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
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One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
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There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...
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I feel like you may be a special and kind person. And I would like to make it my business to know special and kind people. Especially if they are boys my age.
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I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
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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.
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I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.
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The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.
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I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.
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I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.
