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Age Quotes
"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."
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"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."
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"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age."
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"We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate."
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"As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."
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"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."
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"I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying."
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"I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family."
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"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
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"A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves."
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"I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that."
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"I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'"
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"Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that."
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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."
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"My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim."
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"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
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"It makes it very exciting don't you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?"
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"In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league."
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"This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country."
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"I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music."
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"It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that."
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"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen."
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"In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today."
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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum."
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