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Age Quotes


"With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic."


"Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income."


"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."



"I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line."



"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."


"It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well."
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"Age affects how people experience time."


"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."


"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."



"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."
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"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."


"I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age."



"From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it."


"Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples."



"But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club."
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"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."


"Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers."


"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."


"I enjoy what I do every minute of the day, even when the going gets tough. When I first began writing, I used to work at a desk in the bedroom, of a small development house. My three sons all under the age of 3 would come running in and out of the room every minute."


"Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness."


"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father."
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