"One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor."

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"One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor."

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"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

Dorothy Thompson, American Journalist

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"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."

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"You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living."

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"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."

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"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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"You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress."

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"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth."

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"The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well."

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"I'd love to try my hand at something else."

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"I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects."

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"My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem."

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"As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff."

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"I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs."

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"To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all."

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"I do think I'm a character actor."

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"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."

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"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."

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