"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

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"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."

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"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge."

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"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."

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"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."

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"There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something."

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"I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

"Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?"

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."

"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge."

"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."

"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."

"There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something."

"I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record."