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"Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play."
Usher Raymond
"Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play."
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"You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living."
Zack Wamp
"You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living."
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"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
Brooks Atkinson
"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
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"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."
Chris Brown
"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."
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"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."
Judy Biggert
"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."
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"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
Tom Stoppard
"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
Don Marquis
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
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"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."
William Feather
"One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young."
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"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."
Stockard Channing
"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."
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"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."
Satish Kumar
"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."
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"We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me."
James Young
"We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me."
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"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending."
Anne Bradstreet
"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending."
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"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."
William Styron
"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis."
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"Now is the age of anxiety."
W. H. Auden
"Now is the age of anxiety."
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"It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well."
Anwar Robinson
"It would be Beyonce Knowles, because we are around the same age and I think she sings very, very well."
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"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."
Sonny Rollins
"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."
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"Age affects how people experience time."
Edward T. Hall
"Age affects how people experience time."
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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."
Gregory Harrison
"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."
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"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
Rita Rudner
"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
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"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."
John Osborne
"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."
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"Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age."
Lactantius
"Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age."
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"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."
Chuck Klosterman
"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."
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"Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist."
Cameron Crowe
"Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist."
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"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."
Steven Morrissey
"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."
Jacques Barzun
"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."
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"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."
Alva Myrdal
"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."
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"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."
Robert Browning
"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold."
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"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was."
Maria Callas
"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was."
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"There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life."
Alvin Lee
"There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life."
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"I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age."
Ed Bradley
"I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age."
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"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."
William Cobbett
"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."
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"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."
J. B. Priestley
"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."
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"49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way."
Burt Ward
"49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way."
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"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."
Christopher Dawson
"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."
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"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."
Will Estes
"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."
Age,
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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."
Billy Joel
"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."
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"Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers."
Alma Gluck
"Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers."
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"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
Christopher Lasch
"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
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"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
Robertson Davies
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
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"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."
Evan Hunter
"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."
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"I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that."
Hale Irwin
"I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that."
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"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."
James Welch
"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."
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"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."
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"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."
Clifton Paul Fadiman
"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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"There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests."
Marvin Hamlisch
"There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests."
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"Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people."
James Bovard
"Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people."
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"At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family."
Milla Jovovich
"At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family."
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"If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging."
Kenneth H. Cooper
"If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging."
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"I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are."
Matthew Lotti
"I find it hard living in a day and age where people are unwilling to accept who they really are."
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"I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles."
Candice Bergen
"I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles."
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