"My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth."

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"My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth."

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Poet

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"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Ogden Nash, American Poet

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"Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think."

Michael Caine, English Actor

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"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Age, Aging, Youth, Gender, Desire

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

Rob Lowe, American Actor

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

Walker Percy, American Writer

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Money

"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."

Men

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

Singing

"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."

Experience

"Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less."

Being

"It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends."

Money

"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

Singing

"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."

People

"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so."

Business

"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."

Thought