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Age Quotes
"Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19."
40
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
40
"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
40
"The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale."
40
"To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction."
39
"So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!"
39
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
39
"But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age."
39
"My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age."
39
"Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it."
39
"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
39
"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily."
39
"But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20."
39
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
38
"It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess."
38
"Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?"
38
"Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age."
38
"In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods."
38
"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends."
38
"I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do."
38
"Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9."
38
"When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette."
38
"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."
38
"Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning."
38
"I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in."
38
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