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Age Quotes

"Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space."

"Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space."

John Joly, Irish Scientist

Age, Earth, Space, Universe

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"When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not."

"When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not."

Marlee Matlin, American Actress

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"We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives."

"We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives."

Julie Bishop, Australian Politician

Age, Ageing, Fact

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"I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences."

"I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences."

Dean Stockwell, American Actor

Age, Business, People, Children

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"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing."

"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing."

Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

Age, Thought, Being, Fun

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"My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot."

"My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot."

Fay Wray, American Actress

Age, Thought, Children, Want

43

"Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age."

"Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age."

Clive Bell, English Critic

Age, Genius, Worship

43

"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."

John Le Carre, English Writer

Age, Democracy, Maturity

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"I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves."

"I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves."

Jamie Lee Curtis, American Actress

Age, Women, Children, Feeling

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"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."

"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."

Joel Coen, American Director

Age, Education, Mother, Father

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"Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin."

"Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin."

Suzanne Somers, American Actress

Age, People, Will

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"In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian."

"In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian."

Rory Bremner, British Comedian

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"This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security."

"This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security."

Art Buchwald, American Journalist

Age, Birthday, Security

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"At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music."

"At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

Age, Music, Poetry, Listening

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"At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."

"At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth."

Harry Seidler, Australian Architect

Age, Artist, Rebirth

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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

Age, Heart, Old

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"Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance."

"Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance."

Albert Claude, Belgian Scientist

Age, Life, Dreams, Earth

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"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."

"And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it much easier than you guys who don't grow up with Australian television or British television."

Rachel Griffiths, American Actress

Age, Television

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"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them."

"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them."

Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Director

Age, Movies, Rights

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"I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's."

"I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's."

Jhonen Vasquez, American Cartoonist

Age, People, Fans, First

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"We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin."

"We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin."

Hugo Ball, German Author

Age, Heart, Libraries

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"My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

"My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely."

Lionel Blue, British Clergyman

Age, Mother, Old

43

"If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life."

"If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life."

Nick Nolte, American Actor

Age, Experience, Life, Living

43

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

Muddy Waters, American Musician

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"From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea."

"From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea."

Justin Sane, American Musician

Age, Idea, Being, Problems

43

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

Pope John XXIII, Italian Clergyman

43

"I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age."

"I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age."

Rosanna Arquette, American Actress

Age, Time, Women, Life

43

"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."

"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

Age, News, Wine

43

"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."

"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

Age, Beginning, Content, Internet

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"You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination."

"You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination."

Mike Judge, American Producer

Age, Being, Want

43

"When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you."

"When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you."

Michael Winterbottom, British Director

43

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

John Henry Newman, British Clergyman

Age, Religion, Dream, Idea

43

"At our age, you don't want to stop."

"At our age, you don't want to stop."

Alex Van Halen, American Musician

43

"At my age flowers scare me."

"At my age flowers scare me."

George Burns, American Comedian

43

"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

Age, Life, Love

43

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

J. K. Rowling, English Author

Age, Men, Forget, Old

43

"Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs."

"Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs."

Ruth Gordon, American Actress

43

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."

Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

Age, Grave, May, Meditation

43

"So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age."

"So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

Age, Business, Government, School

43

"I think it would be great if there were no age limit."

"I think it would be great if there were no age limit."

Paula Abdul, American Musician

43

"We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band."

"We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band."

Joan Jett, American Musician

43

"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."

"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."

Edith Wharton, American Author

Age, Death, Freedom, Old

43

"From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash."

"From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash."

Sophie Tucker, American Entertainer

Age, Needs, Parents, Personality

43

"But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know."

"But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know."

Sharon Gless, American Actress

43

"To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting."

"To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back in time about 20 years later to play the same character who is your own age then, its very complicated, but very interesting."

Ian McDiarmid, Scottish Actor

Age, Life, Time, Character

43

"I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on."

"I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on."

Lillie Langtry, British Actress

43

"I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11."

"I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11."

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

43

"But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit."

"But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit."

Juliette Binoche, French Actress

Age, Europe, Woman

43

"Age carries all things away, even the mind."

"Age carries all things away, even the mind."

Virgil, Roman Poet

43

"Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles."

"Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles."

William Lilly, English Celebrity

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