Age Quotes
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
 David Mamet
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
 Johnny Ball
					 
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
 Sam Weller
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
 Edgar Allan Poe
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
 Daisy Ashford
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
 S. I. Hayakawa
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
 Garth Risk Hallberg
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
 Andre Maurois
					 
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The idea that things can be serious minded but must be somehow balkanized in the art-house ghetto is very upsetting because I think it limits not just the audience who was already going to see it, but those who might have had their tastes developed at a younger age.
 Edward Zwick
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
 J. B. Priestley
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
 Canelo Alvarez
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
 Francesca Annis
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The information age has made Thiel rich, but it has also been a disappointment to him. It hasn't created enough jobs, and it hasn't produced revolutionary improvements in manufacturing and productivity. The creation of virtual worlds turns out to be no substitute for advances in the physical world.
 George Packer
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
 Katharine Cornell
					 
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
 Natsuo Kirino
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I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.
 Ian Hislop
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
 Hannah Arendt
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
 Lou Holtz
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Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
 Bob Dylan
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I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
 Yuri Milner
					 
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My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five.
 Adnan Sami
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
 Barry Jenkins
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In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
 David Mitchell
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Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
 Dustin Clare