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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Age, Men, Forget, Old

"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Age, Aging, Virginity, Wisdom, Respect

"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Age, Censure, Folly, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Age, Experience, Errors, Light

"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

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"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."

Men

"I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be."

Belief

"There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed."

Woman

"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played."

Mother

"In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it."

People

"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."

Mother

"I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother."

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